Kado Muir is a Ngalia Custodian and co-founder of the Ngalia Heritage Research Council (Aboriginal Corporation) (NHRC). He started working with his Elders through the NHRC in Aboriginal Heritage, Language preservation and maintenance, traditional ecological knowledge/education and has since transitioned into an Aboriginal cultural and community leader, artist, traditional owner and Ngalia Custodian. He is also a Community Based researcher with experience working as an anthropologist and archaeologist.

Vivienne Robertson is a conceptual artist and creative director living on the south coast of WA. She has visioned, created and delivered large-scale art projects and festivals for the past 20 years, with a focus on site-specific art and partnering Indigenous community. This includes the Wheatbelt Cultural Festival, Denmark Festival of Voice (2015-2021), Kwoorabup Writers Festival, Mandjar Kwoorabup, Salt of the Earth, River Art, Honouring Indigenous Languages, Desert Voices and Kwoorabup Art Trail. Vivienne is also a Sufi teacher and retreat guide, and a leader and mentor in the Dances of Universal Peace. She has co-led retreats with Indigenous elders Dr Noel Nannup, Kado Muir and Eugene Eades.

Professor Kingsley Dixon is the scientific advisor to the project. Director of the ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration and WA Scientist of the Year (2016), Kingsley leads a multi-disciplinary research team in the restoration and conservation sciences. He holds positions on international and national boards and commissions including Chair of the International Network for Seed-based Restoration, Chair of the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia and Chair of the peak body for restoration, the international Society for Ecological Restoration.

Deeva Muir co-founded the Ngalia Heritage Research Council (Aboriginal Corporation) (NHRC) alongside her husband Kado and his Elders in 1989. She has worked alongside Kado in documentation, preservation, revival and maintenance of Ngalia culture, histories, language and heritage. She is an artist and a specialist in community arts based development and engagement for culturally grounded activism and impact. She has developed a number of programs and projects supporting young Aboriginal people to find ways to express their creativity and empower themselves.

Lucy Ridsdale is a multidisciplinary artist living in Walyalup–Fremantle whose people emigrated to Australia from the British Isles and Germany between the 1850s and the 1960s. With a passion for making that extends across the visual, textile and performing arts, Lucy has held five solo exhibitions of paintings and photography, performed as a vocal soloist in festivals and concerts, and acted in the ritual theatre piece Somnus as part of the Fremantle Biennale, 2019. As a community artist, she has collaborated with a variety of communities across Western Australia and loves seeing people pick up a creative skill and running with it. A calligrapher in Turkey once told her: ‘to be an artist, your first work is to be generous’. So this is where it begins.

Nic Duncan is a freelance professional photographer who travels throughout Western Australia (and beyond), taking stills photos for film and television, documenting events and arts projects and storytelling with her camera. She has been WA AIPP Professional Portrait Photographer of the Year, and a three-times finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize with images exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Solo exhibitions include a year-long display on Perth’s Yagan Tower of 100 portraits taken around regional, rural and remote WA - this was seen by upward of one million people. Nic celebrates community and life beyond the traffic lights with her photographs.

Aerial cinematographer Michael Haluwana’s work was recently exhibited at the WA Museum Boola Bardip in ‘Walking with Colour’ showcasing West Australian landscapes and seascapes. Michael also captured content for the award winning BBC documentary, Planet Earth II, presented & narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and was a feature photographer for National Geographic with images of ngurra (country).