Place Names Melville

Pip Kelly is a film-maker and creative producer from Perth, Western Australia. She has an academic background in Socio-cultural studies and Film Directing and professional experience in arts management, museums and galleries, community engagement, community cultural development and arts festivals.

Guided by her passion for storytelling, Pip has worked closely with communities in Australia and Cambodia, exploring themes of identity, belonging, memory, truth-telling, cultural practices, cultural objects, and contemporary art.

Pip's films have screened on Stan, ABC and SBS, at international festivals and have won Australian film awards.

Pip is the Project Producer for Mapping Leschenault which is a cultural mapping project endorsed by Gnaala Karla Booja Aboriginal Corporation. 

Pip loves to connect with nature and all the beautiful beaches that run along the Great Southern Region of WA.

Len Collard is a Whadjuk Nyungar Traditional Owner of the Perth metropolitan area and Professor at School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. Len’s ground breaking theoretical work and research around decoding Noongar Place Names of the Southwest of Australia has put Nyungar Cultural research on the local, national and international stages.

With a background in literature and communications, Len’s research has allowed the broadening of the understanding of the many unique characteristics of Australian Aboriginal people and contributes to the appreciation of Aboriginal culture and heritage of the Southwest Australia.

Geri has worked with both Aboriginal community organisations, non-government organisations and government bodies. As the former chairperson of the Southern Aboriginal Corporation she gained experience working in Noongar communities to implement social justice and wellbeing projects.

Geri worked as a project officer with South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council for several years and has been a part of the South West Native Title Settlement, the largest native title settlement in Australian history, which will affect an estimated 30,000 Noongar people over 200,000 square kilometres in South West WA.

Natalie Scholtz is an African Persian British Australian visual artist. She is inspired by creative conversations around the relationship of self and society, action and response, culture, arts and change.

Natalie has had the pleasure of being part of CAN’s Place Names over the past 5 years, connecting with local Noongar Elders, community and a range of learning and talent from Langford, Albany, Katanning and now Fremantle.