Hillview Community Art Project

Shenali is an artist, producer, and community development professional working at the intersection of community arts and systems change.

She brings with her a range of experiences working in community education, social arts, and equity & inclusion across Australia’s university, not-for-profit and private sectors. Internationally, she has produced work for the Presencing Institute (MIT), United in Diversity (Indonesia), and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Labs in the Asia Pacific region.

At CAN, Shenali supports project producers and artists with community engagement and in ensuring CAN’s work is guided by best practice of community arts and cultural development. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) in Asian Studies from the University of Western Australia and completed her postgrad study at the Curtin University Centre for Human Rights Education.

Shenali loves food! The ocean, language and dancing.

Lidia is originally from Brazil. She is an enthusiastic and vibrant community worker who loves connecting different people through the culture and arts. Her career has been built on the development of multicultural and vulnerable communities, where she found her purpose in sharing her knowledge to impact the world around her positively. Her inspiring story is a testament to the power of believing in your journey.

Lidia is currently producing the Lullabies Belmont Project.

Lidia loves to meet new people! She also loves travel, bare-feet and listening to good live music.

Nick Zafir is a contemporary artist who grew up in the South-West of Australia, now situated in Perth, and currently facilitating art studios in remote Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert. With a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University, his work employs street techniques combined with traditional studio techniques. His work aims to highlight relationships between the environment and the people around him. Some of his larger projects include Mural festivals such as “Public” (2015), the regional powerbox project (2018) for FORM, and the entirety of the South Perth Toy Library (2021), alongside a series of successful group and solo exhibitions ranging from 2014- present, and a slew of private mural commissions across the Perth Metro and WA regional areas.