Alex Stronach (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki) is a writer, editor, and cryptid based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and current Kaiwhakahaere Tūhononga at The Pantograph Punch. Her wingspan is thought to exceed two metres. It is unclear how she escaped the South Island, but investigations are ongoing. Look, she's a neurodivergent trans woman who owns cat ears and likes Paradox games, you know the type: hobbies include queer issues and activism, SF/F, gaming, poems that bloom like a lotus on subsequent reads. Keen to make sure upcoming artists from all over the motu get their names written in the stars. You may know her from 

, or because she's That Girl From Twitter. Her debut novel

Alex Stronach (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki) is a writer, editor, and cryptid based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and current Kaiwhakahaere Tūhononga at The Pantograph Punch. Her debut novel The Dawnhounds was released by Saga Press in 2022.

Alex Stronach

Meet writer, editor, cryptid, and our new Comms Manager, Alex! She shares five things that have informed her work, for Loose Canons.

Loose Canons: Alex Stronach

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou) is our Kaiwāwāhi Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Editor. She is a Libra sun with a Cancer Moon and Aries rising. Her background is in art history, Māori history, creative writing and educational research. Her work has been published with Starling, Sport, Turbine Kapohau, RNZ and other places.

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou) is a writer, editor, researcher and our current Kaiwāwāhi Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Editor.

Sinead Overbye

Introducing our new kaiwāwahi Kaupapa Māori editor - Sinead Overbye! Check out her Loose Canons to learn the 5 things that make her tick!

Loose Canons - Sinead Overbye

Talia Smith is an artist and curator who was born in Ngāmotu, Aotearoa, spent her adult years in Tāmaki Makaurau and now lives in Sydney, Australia, on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Her practice looks at notions of time, memory, familial histories and the reclamation of the colonial tool of the camera, and she has a particular research focus on time-based practices. She has curated exhibitions with large and small organisations, such as the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Artbank, Cement Fondu, Artspace Sydney and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. In 2022 she curated the show The Salt of the Earth for the Singapore International Photography Festival. She has been the chair of Runway Journal, is an advisor for the Australian Research Council project Parallel, run by Salote Tawale and Veronica Tello, and is a participant in the Australia Council for the Arts international curators’ programme for 2022/23. Talia completed a curatorial residency in 2020 with Basis Frankfurt and has written for publications such as Art New Zealand, Running Dog, Art Collector and for various artists’ catalogues. She is also a member of the Sydney MeMo Review board of writers. She completed her Master of Fine Arts (research) at UNSW Sydney in 2021 and is currently the Curator at Granville Centre Art Gallery.

Talia Smith is an artist and curator who was born in Ngāmotu, Aotearoa, spent her adult years in Tāmaki Makaurau and now lives in Sydney, Australia, on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. 

Talia Smith

In our latest Loose Canons series, we invite artist and curator Talia Smith to share five things that have informed her work. Her practice explores the notions of time, memory, and familial histories. 

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