Dr Shannon Brett is a proud Wakka Wakka, Butchulla, Gurang Gurang artist, photographer, designer, educator, researcher and curator, currently based in Magandjin (Brisbane).

Shannon’s practice-led research for PhD examines the construction of whiteness as a racial category in Australia and its enduring intergenerational impacts on First Nations peoples, histories, cultures, and lands. The research contributes to discourses on First Nations rights, cultural sovereignty, and gender justice in Australia.

The Field of Research is Visual Cultures and the Field of Education: Studies in Human Society. Through practice-led inquiry, the study challenges entrenched colonial narratives and offers alternative ways of knowing and being that centre Indigenous perspectives and resists the pervasive influence of whiteness. Shannon's practice-led, decolonial, and Black feminist perspectives offer an interdisciplinary approach to examining systemic racism and patriarchy. 

Shannon is a current member of the Contemporary Aboriginal Art Collective proppaNOW, holds a Diploma of Multimedia (Graphic Design), a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art and has worked in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia.