Meet Our 2025 Associate Artists
Claudia Chidiac
Claudia Chidiac is a creative producer and arts worker with over 20 years of experience shaping inclusive, community-driven arts across Greater Sydney. Her practice blends festival curation with collaborative projects like The Village by The Kids, where she collaborates with children to create immersive audio experiences and sound walks in neighbourhoods. Claudia has worked as Theatre Producer at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Artistic Director of Powerhouse Youth Theatre. A 2024 Creative Australia Ros Bower Award recipient, she currently serves on the board of Monkey Baa Theatre Company, and Arts and Cultural Exchange (ACE), Parramatta.
Martin del Amo
Martin del Amo is a choreographer and dancer with 30 years of professional experience. He is acclaimed for his solos fusing idiosyncratic movement and intimate storytelling, and, more recently, as a creator of group works and solos for others. Programmed by many major festivals and venues across the country, his work has toured nationally and internationally. Martin’s contribution to the Australian arts sector as a teacher, dramaturg, dance writer and mentor to emerging artists has been recognised with the 2024 Creative Australia Award for Dance, the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2018), and the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2015).
Victoria Hunt
Victoria Hunt's work delves into Moana-nui-a-kiwa Oceanic epistemologies. She is a dance artist, choreographer, director, dramaturg, filmmaker, and photographer. Her practice reinstates IndigiQueer futurity—grounded in Mātauranga Māori and BodyWeather—within the politics of Rematriation. A founding dancer with De Quincey Co. (2000–2024), Hunt is a leading figure in Australia’s BODYWEATHER practice.
Her highly regarded collaborative solo Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka was nominated for several awards, including an Australian Dance Award and Helpmann Award for Best Dancer, and toured internationally to Origins Festival, In Between Time, LIFT (UK), IMPACT15, PuSh Festival, Banff Centre, National Arts Centre, Public Energy (CA). Day of Invigilation, premiered at Performance Space and toured to Ecocentrix: Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts (UK) and Indigenous Creators Exchange/ Scene Contemporaine Autochtone at Festival TransAmeriques (CA). Tangi Wai... the cry of water premiered at Liveworks and Dance Massive (Australia), earning nominations for an Australian Dance Award, a Helpmann Award, and three Green Room Awards—receiving the award for Best Visual Design in Dance. Her recent work, KŌIWI, commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW and Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, gave form to a 'protector' of taonga and is currently traveling the world.
Her short film TAKE received the Mana Whenua Award at the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking at Sydney Film Festival (2019) and has screened in six continents. She is a feature artist in the Biennale of the Arts of the Body, Image and Movement (Madrid) with curator Fiona Winning, and is the lead in two feature-length speculative fiction films by director Juan Salazar: Nightfall on Gaia (2015) and Cosmographies (2025). Victoria is the co-founder of Weather Beings, a trans/national collective with Two-Spirit Métis artist Moe Clark (Tio’tia:ke/Montreal). She is artist-in-residence at Carriageworks, Sydney (2024-25).
Lineages: Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, English, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian. Born on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast).
Jazz Money
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred in poetics to produce works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. Their recently released second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) is the 2024 recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film is WINHANGANHA (2023), commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive.
