Live Edge 2026 Artists

AOTA Creative

AOTA (All Of The Above) Creative is a multidisciplinary artistic duo comprising Leigh-Anne “LiLi” Vizer and Lachy Shelley. Combining decades of experience across choreography, movement direction, circus, performance, rigging, production and creative direction, AOTA brings a dynamic and collaborative approach to live performance.
With extensive national and international credits spanning theatre, festivals, stadium ceremonies and large-scale cultural events, LiLi and Lachy unite their diverse skills to create bold, innovative and engaging experiences.
Driven by a shared passion for storytelling, creative collaboration and technical ingenuity, AOTA embraces the possibilities of interdisciplinary performance — bringing all of the above to every project.

Frauke Huhn and Cye Wood

Cye and Frauke are based in the Northern Rivers and started collaborating in 2021. Cye is a lifelong violinist, multi-instrumentalist and improviser/composer whose work delves into many aspects of sound creation, including production, improvisation, performance, sound installation and film scoring. His live and recorded work invokes a deep listening state, drawing listeners into familiar yet unchartered territories.
Frauke has created performance art, theatre and installations for as long as she can remember. Her practice explores the body as a site of knowledge, recognition and transformation. She is interested in how stories, memory and relationships move through people, communities and places. Frauke has a background in visual arts, performing arts, applied theatre, academia, performance art, education and science. All this influences her when she creates.

Photo | Vanessa Kellas

Immortal Soil and Nathan Jenkins

This collaboration brings together the botanical practice of artists Bob Horan and Selena Murray with the sound and light of Lismore-based multidisciplinary artist Nathan Jenkins.
Immortal Soil creates large-scale living sculptural works using often overlooked botanical elements and found materials. Their practice explores impermanence, transformation and the enduring cycles of growth and decay, creating immersive environments that remain soft, porous and continually changing.
Nathan works across experimental sound, light, projection and live audiovisual performance. He uses sound and light as spatial materials to shape atmosphere and alter how an audience experiences a space.

Photo | Elise Derwin

Kirilly Dawn

Kirilly is a Barkindji woman, multi disciplinary artist and doula. Her work is informed by movement between bodies and Country and our relationship to the unseen. She is a somatic movement practitioner and student of Body Mind Centering. She is interested in exploring the relationship between embryology, our earliest life in water, and dreams intersect as both memory and return. Kirilly is a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Cooperative and her practice includes movement, weaving, painting and photography.

Photo | Kiri Hance

Neville Cain and Kim McLean

Neville and Kim have been collaborating on art projects encompassing music, sculpture, fine art and scenic design for more than 20 years. The partnership fuses Kim’s expertise in painting, drawing, printmaking and art construction with Neville’s skills in sculpture, set design, engineering and construction. They have a resourceful approach to the materials used in our projects, exploiting a diverse range of media including salvaged and recycled objects. Together they have created spaces and set pieces for local musicians and Nedlands Studio performances where Al Pegg runs OD Productions recording. Creativity is our driving force, we write and play music, build, paint and interpret our world.

Tongue and Groove

Based in Bundjalung in the Northern Rivers, Tongue and Groove is a performance poetry ensemble. Taking poetry down intertwining paths of speech, song and rap. Each member of the group contributes something unique. From Vic Lynch brewing up new beats to Sarah Lock’s winning word-smithing, Shannon Smith's freestyle flow and Laurian Smith’s soulful singing. Tongue and Groove brings a fresh take to musical storytelling. Playing in the cross section between words and music. Speech and soundscapes. Thoughts and feelings. Tongue and Groove.

Sue Connor and Rowena Kempton

Sue from Playing With Fibre is a textile and fibre artist based in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, where her practice is inspired by the region's landscapes, plants and seasonal rhythms. Working with natural fibres, basketry, loom weaving and botanical dyes, she explores our relationship with place, sustainability and traditional making practices.
Rowena is a Northern Rivers-based artist working across sculpture, weaving and installation. Originally trained in ceramics, she now transforms natural and found materials into sculptural forms. Her work explores courage, resilience, belonging and our relationship with nature.