Shannon Brett is a proud Wakka Wakka/Butchulla/

Gooreng Gooreng artist, photographer, designer, educator, researcher and curator, currently completing a PhD in Social Justice at the Queensland University

of Technology in Meeanjin/Magandjin (Brisbane). Their research on whiteness responds to systemic racism and misogyny in Australia from decolonial and black feminist perspectives. Brett is a current member of the Contemporary Aboriginal Art Collective proppaNOW, and also Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Modern Art in Meeanjin/Magandjin (Brisbane). They hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art and have worked in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia.