M. Sunflower
Social Media Handle: @msunflowerartist
M. Sunflower is a Dharug Eora First Nations “Australian” who is Disabled, Queer, and CALD with Lebanese, Chinese, Irish and UK convict ancestry traced back to the 1600s. This unique and targeted intersectionality embodies the diverse ancestral legacy of Australia’s painful and complex colonial past, present and future.
Advocacy and Community Care are her passions, leveraging white-passing privilege to create activist art exploring Intersectional Identity, Body Diversity, Intergenerational Trauma and their connections to Disability outcomes.
She holds a BVA from SCA, USYD; is former Co-Director of the Board at Firstdraft; an Advisory Committee Member for National Ethnic Disability Alliance, and Accessible Arts; and Peer Assesses for organisations such as Creative Australia, Bundanon, UTS Library, and the 2025 IMAGinE Awards.
Aaron Aryadharma Matheson
Social Media Handle: @Aryadharmamatheson
Aaron Aryadharma Matheson is represented by Liverpool St Gallery, Sydney, and has had three solo shows with them. He lives and works in the inner west of Sydney. He was awarded the Richard Ford travel award and has been a finalist in the Mosman, Waverley and Waterhouse prizes. Matheson has a Masters in Fine Art completed in 2018 at the National Art School in Sydney and postgraduate study at the Royal Drawing School in London.
Matheson navigates life with chronic disease and a wheelchair with his painting practice. In fact painting makes it possible to bring the cosmic perspective closer: ‘The stars and planets are sublime– the unimaginable spaces in our universe, the trillions of stars in our galaxy. To paint is a much more domestic affair, mixing coloured pigment, rubbing and making scruffy marks. Out of the stretch between them the poetry of painting emerges’. Matheson has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for more than 16 years.
Sophie Hoo
Sophie Hoo is a creative with a passion for building community through art. Sophie has 20 years experience working within the visual arts at renowned institutions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
She is the current Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, where she advises on integrating accessibility best-practices across the organisation. Within her role, Sophie also coordinates and develops gallery tours, creative art workshops and inclusive events for the disabled community. Sophie brings to her career, a lived experience of disability as well as a practical knowledge of materiality and art making techniques informed by her personal creative practice. Her knowledge of the visual arts is underpinned by an honours degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts, London, UK, and woven with a deep appreciation for creative expression.
Ava Lacoon
Social Media Handle: @avalacoon
Ava Lacoon (she/they) is a Queer, Disabled, Crip, Anglo-Asian, (forever) emerging writer, curator and arts worker living on Sovereign Gadigal Land. Her practice is shaped by the expansive methodologies of Anti-colonial, Queer and Crip Studies and focuses on facilitating spaces that enable community connection and chase the horizon of potentiality.
She recently Guest Edited ‘Hyphen’ – Artlink’s Warlati/ Summer Issue. They won the Kudos Emerging Writer Award in 2024 and have been published by Artlink, Memo and the National Gallery of Australia. Ava is a participant in Accessible Arts and Diversity Arts 2025 Ripple: Disability and Culturally Diverse Internship Program.
In partnership with Accessible Arts
As the peak body for arts and disability in NSW, Accessible Arts champions the rights and opportunities of people with disability or who are d/Deaf to pursue careers and access the arts equitably.
For over 35 years, we’ve delivered programs, workshops, and services that support career growth, audience development, and community engagement in the arts and disability sector.
