Celebration event for Hannah Brontë, David Rosetzky & Caroline Monnet

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Brendan McCleary is a Curator and Producer with over 15-years experience, working across government, non-profit, corporate, and university sectors.

A founding team member of PHOTO Australia (2018-2025), he was instrumental in creating and delivering public artworks and programming.

Alongside his work for PHOTO Australia, Brendan has directed programs for White Night Melbourne, Melbourne Music Week and DarkMofo. Gallery exhibitions include exhibitions with Australian Embassy, Paris; BUS projects; and a four-year tenure as Gallery Director at SEVENTH Gallery.

In 2025, he was a co-curator for the landmark exhibitionOn Country: Photography from Australiaat the Rencontresd’Arles, 2025.

Image credit: Will Hamillton-Coates.

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For three decades, David Rosetzky’s lens-based artworks have articulated the manifold experiences of selfhood.

Observing identity as that which is shaped by and understood through the framework of community and culture, his practice utilises photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance to produce institutional-scale projects.

In exploring notions of belonging, intimacy and desire through image, text, movement and language, his rigorous methodology often draws from oral, written and video testimony gathered through interviews with casts of performers, community members and fellow artists.

Renowned in both Australian and international video-art contexts, his multi-disciplinary practice embodies ideas of communality and exchange through a truly collaborative and dialogical approach to art making.

Find out more about We are not our names and we are not our bodies by David Rosetzky.

Image credit: Brent Lukey.

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Brontë is an Artist, Doula and Creatrix dreaming and swimming on Kombumerri/Yugambeh Country (Gold Coast). Brontë’s practice is rooted in pleasure as a guiding force — pleasure in colour, in connection, in imagination, in the act of creating itself. 

Brontë’s works emerge as dreamscapes that blur the edges of the present with visions of the future, saying what is to come and allowing it to blend into the here and now. These dreamscapes invite audiences to soften, to feel, and to open to the possibilities of a life infused with sacred rage, wildness, beauty and joy. 

Working across video, text, textiles, and sound, she layers mediums to create kaleidoscopic worlds of sensation and presence. Recent collaborations with holistic and spiritual healers have expanded her explorations into colour therapy, grounding audiences while also shifting their energy toward vibrancy and renewal. 

Find out more about 'Diva Worship' by Hannah Brontë.

Image credit: Courtesy of the artist.

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Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal, Canada. 

Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. The artist has also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA), Toronto Art Biennial (Canada), KØS Museum (Køge, Denmark), Musée d'art contemporain (Montréal, Canada) and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), among others. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America and at the Maison de l'UNESCO in Paris. Caroline Monnet is represented by Blouin Division in Montreal and Toronto. 

Find out more about 'Ikwewak (Women)' by Caroline Monnet.

Image credit: Darwin Doleyres.