Projects supported through Signal Young Creatives Lab in 2024 are:
Tyler Bain
Girrwaawa (meaning 'Come Together' in traditional Gumbaynggirr language) is a feature length documentary exploring the life and creative process of Gumbaynggirr artist and activist Aretha Brown as she travels to India, America, Canada and East Timor to create large-scale mural works that explore queerness, youth and Indigenous identity.
Jessica Tanto
Jessica Tanto is a queer artist and mindfulness facilitator born and raised in Java. Countering Java’s modest culture, queerness is often linked to a high-energy, loud, exaggerated and maximalist aesthetic.
Jessica feels like there isn’t much representation and space for a more modest, contemplative and restful expression of queerness. Jessica has invited a fellow quiet queer, Iva Thian, to collaboratively define the term ‘quiet queer’ as a way to encapsulate their underrepresented queer perspectives.
Bella Waru
F.A.R. (For a Reason) is Bella Waru’s debut EP exploring connection, self-reflection, growth and all-encompassing love. Of mixed bloodlines and Jazz musician parents, Waru’s intimate, raw and piercing sound surfaces in the realms between the Avant-nesian, Siren songs, Celtic folk and Soul.
WAARI
MUKI is a 4 track EP that traces the lifecycle of the flower of Gidyea, a tree long valued by First Nations people of so-called Australia. Muki is a reclamation of self and place. It sheds light on the transition from childbirth to adulthood, and on the environments of culture, people, land and water. It brings the lived experience of being Blak in this country.