Hannah Fox

Hannah Fox is an Artist, Curator and Festival Director with a focus on sound art, large-scale public art, contemporary music and live art. 

Her work has crossed a broad spectrum of outcomes, from painting hundreds of sheep for Latitude Festival in the UK, to choreographing cranes for a large scale car stunt show and collaborating with Banksy and Janes Addiction on a performance intervention. 

Since returning to Australia in 2007, she founded creative partnership Supple Fox; delivered four years of programs as Artistic Associate for Contemporary Music at Melbourne Festival and then made the move to Mona at the very beginning stages of their winter festival, Dark Mofo where she is rose to the position of Associate Creative Director. 

In July 2019, along with Gideon Obarzanek, Hannah was appointed as Director and joint CEO of the newly remodelled and launched festival for Melbourne.  An amalgam of White Night and Melbourne International Arts Festival, her tenure extends from 2020 till 2023.

In parallel to her curatorial endeavours, Hannah has ventured into developing her own artistic practice in collaboration with artist Byron J Scullin and Thomas Supple. In June 2017, the group presented a new work, Siren Song, a large-scale, outdoor sonic artwork that fills the skies of a city, which continues to be remounted in cities around the world.

Byron J. Scullin

The work of Melbourne practitioner Byron Scullin explores the technological representation and amplification of sound as well as its properties as a physical presence. Operating in an ambiguous space where sound transitions into noise, Scullin’s sonic environments offer an experience of mass and multiplicity, often representing attempts to hear the unhearable.

After an interest in synthesis at a young age, Scullin was mentored by producer and composer Francois Tetaz. He has since been involved in almost all aspects of audio in his twenty year career, contributing sound to feature films such as Wolf Creek, contemporary dance productions by Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, and Lee Serle, and theatre works by David Chisholm, Chamber Made Opera, and Arena Theatre Co. He has created installations for museums and galleries - including Creation Cinema as part of First Peoples at the Melbourne Museum - and produced, engineered and mastered numerous Australian and international recordings. He also works as a sound educator at RMIT and Melbourne University.

A prolific collaborator, Scullin has worked closely with audio-visual artist Robin Fox and video artist Daniel Crooks, as well as Australian composers Anthony Pateras, Marco Fusinato, and Oren Ambarchi. He’s also helped realise sound for notable international artists including Bernard Parmegiani, Tony Conrad, and Steven O’Malley.

Thomas Supple

Thomas Supple is an artist and curator working in the field of Contemporary Music, Installation and Sound.

Forging a unique career Thomas has curated programs for Mona Foma, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

His current and ongoing curatorial engagement in the role of Senior Music Curator, for Dark Mofo, is a position he has held since the festival’s inception in 2013.  Across seven festivals he has presented a slew of International and Australian artists, including World premiere performances from Nicolas Jaar (Against All Logic) and Antony & The Johnsons. Along with key Australian premiere performances from FKA Twigs, Jonsi & Alex, Einstürzende Neubauten, St Vincent and Tanya Tagaq. He has also contributed to the visual arts program with key curatorial inclusions: Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang’s Chalkroom and American artist Matthew Schreiber’s monumental commission Leviathan. 

As an artist, Thomas has collaborated regularly with fellow Melbourne based artists Hannah Fox and Byron Scullin. The group’s first co-creation, Bass Bath, an immersive sound installation interrogated the physical properties and experience of sound. In June 2017, the group presented a new work, Siren Song, a large-scale, outdoor sonic artwork that fills the skies of a city.