Tom Mùller - Artistic Director, Fremantle Biennale - on the 'First Lights' project

Tom Mùller is an artist and the artistic director (and co-founder) of the Fremantle Biennale and First Lights. 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 Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, and is the current Chair of the Fremantle Culture Council.

Kim Scott - Award-winning novelist & Two-time Miles Franklin Award Winner

Kim Scott is an award-winning novelist, having twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) along with many other Australian literary prizes. Kim was 2012 West Australian of the Year, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a member of the Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame and in 2022 was declared a State Cultural Treasure. He is currently Curtin University Distinguished Professor in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. Proud to be on among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim’s is convenor of Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories (www.wirlomin.com.au) which is responsible for a number of bilingual (Noongar and English) picture books and regional performances of story and song. Two books, A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott (Camden House, 2016) and Kim Scott: language, readers and interpretation (UWAP, 2019) deal with aspects of his writing and career.