Avrille Burrows is a Naarm (Melbourne) based multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics

and textile. Through the process of hand building, collecting, dyeing, weaving and stitching

her work seeks to understand self through history, place and her lineage.

As a migrant and woman of Indian heritage, the themes of colonisation, integration, and

private and public displacement are present in her work. Her background in mental health

draws on her learnings about intergenerational trauma and the principles of recovery, and

merges this with her practice of art making.  Seeing her works as extensions of herself,

Avrille directly imbeds herself into her work through the use of her hair, medical imaging,

prints and imprints.

Avrille’s use of clay and textiles is historical, cultural and spiritual. Repetition in her work

serves as a rhythm, with making form, stitches, weaving and brushstrokes all used

meditatively as an act of mending, recovery and kindness to oneself.

To the best of her ability Avrille engages in a sustainable art practice, using gifted, second-

hand, found, scrap or natural materials.

Insta: avrille_burrows

Website: avrilleburrows.com.au

Arun (Ernesto) Munoz was born in Santiago Chile and migrated to Australia in 1977.

Throughout his creative career he has inhabited diverse movement and cultural territories,

here in Australia and overseas. He worked for more than a decade as principal dancer,

rehearsal master, vocalist and teacher of classical Indian dance, with Bharatam Dance Co.

In 1993 Arun shifted practice into contemporary choreography and he was awarded one of

six Emerging Choreographer Fellowship to develop his new work. He has created a number

of independent works addressing social, political and cultural concerns, something that has

always underpinned his creative work.

His artistic vision crosses various artforms and cultural boundaries, allowing him to

collaborate with a number of established artists including John Bell and Bell Shakespeare

Company. He was awarded an Australian Choreographic Centre Fellowship and was

selected as one of seven Australian choreographers to take part in the New Moves

International Choreographic Laboratory at the Adelaide Festival and Glasgow New Moves

International Festival. He spent the next 12 years in Europe and came back to Australia to

study photography, specialising in portraiture and performing arts. He has a Post Graduate

in Choreography from the Victorian College of the Arts and continues his creative works in

photography, textile making, installation and performance within a sense of place on Kulin

country.

Born in Coya, Chile and raised on Bunurong Country, Mary Quinsacara also known as

Querator/Que has been part of arts based communities in Narrm for many years as a co-

founder, emcee, mentor and filmmaker. Hip Hop culture has long been an imperfect home

and generative source of connection where the ethos of “each one teach one” has been at

the centre of her practice. Mary is studying a Master of Research (VU) looking at decolonial

approaches to public pedagogy through conversation with self-determined arts collectives in

Narrm. Exploring symmetry in ancestral patterns using ink and legumes, embroidery and

water colours is her current focus; to sense what feels unsensible and to know what feels

unknowable.

Insta: arunmunoz

Website: ernesto-munoz.format.com

Luche Collective

Co-founded by Arun Ernesto Munoz and Mary Quinsacara in 2023 Luche Collective is a

space of sanctuary a, fostering creativity and relationship as a form of remedy and

restoration. Luche is a common word used in Chile deriving from the Mapuche language

Mapundungun and can mean sea lettuce, hopscotch and a polite suggestion ‘to fight’. At its

heart, Luche embraces seasons of transformation and invites improvisation across art forms

within a sense of place on Kulin country. Luche Collective was born out of a lateral

mentorship program through Maribyrnong Council, and When the Anchors Float

photographic series is the culmination of their mentorship. They were recently part of Yo Soy

Collective’s digital publication Sobremesa which features ‘recipes passed down through

generations, original art works, photography and written works centred around the Latin

American diaspora in Australia’s connection to food, community and stories’.

Insta: luche_collective

Website: luchecollective.com