RADF Assessment Panel

Arts executive and multi-platform artist with 25+ years in arts management, cultural tourism, and digital marketing. Led campaigns for The Book of Mormon and WICKED, Evita’s record-breaking Sydney Opera House season, White Night Melbourne and King Tutankhamun Exhibition. Photographer/illustrator with globally sold/licensed work.

Director of the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival, where she is deeply committed to engagement with the local arts sector, and artist and audience development.

Mary Eggleston is an actor, performance & installation artist, a writer, and producer.  She’s a keen collaborator and has worked in Australia and abroad since 1997. Mary is currently creating an installation work called ‘Tokyo Rain’. In 2025 ‘Tokyo Rain’ will tour in Australia, Germany, and Japan.

Gareth Hart (they/them) is an artist, advocate and arts leader, having worked extensively in the Creative Industries for over two decades. Creatively, Hart continues to create new work that receives critical acclaim, often touring through inter/national festival networks. Their leadership practice has seen them hold executive positions within many Australian festivals and community organisations.

Ketakii Jewson-Brown is a Sunshine Coast based artist whose practice plays with notions of reality whilst investigating the body politic along a gradient from the naturalistic to the absurd.

Ketakii is half of the iconic duo ShayeKet Productions who are behind The Sunshine Coat Project and other sustainable fashion-based projects.

Odessa Mahony-de Vries is a Sunshine Coast-based artist whose practice explores the physicality of paint and colour through process-driven large-scale paintings, digital works, and ceramic sculptures. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT and has exhibited at notable galleries, including Noosa Regional Gallery and Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.

Ant Mckenna is Executive General Manager of the Australian Live Music Business Council, a national live music leadership organisation with 2,000 members representing the grass roots live music industry. He is also Director of Programming – Industry Development for Queensland’s state music body QMusic, leading regional and industry development across Queensland.

McKenna has 30 years experience in music industry development, organisational development, cultural development, creative industry development, was the inaugural artist representative on the QMusic Board and played in the iconic (pre-social media era!) Melbourne touring act Those Bloody McKennas for many years, supporting acts like The Waifs and playing a stack of festivals and shows across the continent.

 McKenna is an industry and community engagement specialist and has led the development of a large number of industry development processes.

Alison Mooney is an Australian artist, full time in her practice since 2020, with diverse prior experience as ARI founder, curator, arts worker, producer, creative consultant (2009 – 2020) and formerly, arts + features journalist (2002 – 2009).

Courtney Scheu is an independent dance artist whose practice spans performance, choreography, education, producing and interdisciplinary art making. Courtney is the director of the ADC Youth Ensemble and the only Certified Gaga Teacher based in Australia. Her choreographic work has been presented in events and festivals across Australia and internationally over the past 14 years.

Courtney loves dance for its capacity to create meaningful discoveries and connections.

Karina Sharpe is a conceptual artist exploring lived experiences through photography and mixed media. Combining her creative and technical design background, she delivers precision and flair in her craft. As an avid member of the Sunshine Coast Community, Karina enjoys sharing her aptitude and ideas with the creative industries.

Nathan Sibthorpe is a contemporary performance-maker based in Meanjin. He is best known as the Artistic Director of Counterpilot – the award-winning collective of transmedia performance artists. Nathan was previously Queensland Theatre Company’s Geek-In-Residence in 2012-14. He sometimes teaches performance studies at QUT, where he holds a Masters Degree in contemporary performance.

As a visual artist and designer with over 25 years of experience creating interactive installations, sculptures, and sensory works, I am passionate about engaging audiences through touch, as they explore themes of place, environment, and connection, blending technology with art to inspire curiosity and participation.

Megan Williams is a curator, writer and researcher with twenty years of experience in leadership and programming roles across the art museum sector. Since 2016, she has been the Manager of UniSC Art Gallery and before joining UniSC she worked at QUT, Brisbane.