Contributing Writers
Stella Wadeson
Stella Wadeson (she/her) is a multidisciplinary arts worker engaging working with people from all walks of life. She is an artistically driven, enthusiastic collaborator who is actively working in the arts and culturural sector. Through using the simple fluidity of a sharpie as a medium to draw, jot concepts and realise out of the box visions Stella delves into contemporary life through a creative lens.
Charlotte McKinnon
Charlotte Kathryn McKinnon (she/her) is an Australian-Canadian arts worker living and working in Melbourne/Naarm. Charlotte holds a BA in art history from the University of British Columbia alongside completing an MA at RMIT in Arts Management. Her research interests include protest art, postmodernism, and curation. Charlotte has previously lived in Canada, India, and Sri Lanka, and her work reflects an enduring interest in transnational stories.
Alex Smith is an artist based in Naarm who specialises in drawing and painting. Her work has garnered several accolades, including the Fire Station Print Studio Award and John Vickery Scholarship. Conceptually, her works are subconsciously motivated. Each work is a spell she casts out, only to be understood later. Typically, her practice delves into the internal landscape of femininity, celebrating its beauty while poignantly addressing feelings of vulnerability. When she isn’t making art or thinking about it, Alex spends her time telling jokes and playing pool.
Alex Smith
Adele D’Souza
Adele D’Souza is a writer, editor and researcher interested in exploring alternate modes of art writing and publishing. Currently, she works as a publishing assistant. Her writing has been featured in NGV’s Triennial 2023 exhibition and NGV Magazine. In 2024, she was an inaugural resident in the Momus Arts Journalism Residency program. Adele is also the founder and curator of counterpose archives, a resource-building project aimed at challenging the cultural hegemony in art publishing. Her practice seeks to decentralise the prevailing narratives that inform the arts, fostering new perspectives and critically reimagining the ways we think and write about art.