About

Tura’s founder, Artistic Director and CEO, Tos Mahoney has played a pivotal role in the experimental music and cultural sector in Australia over the last 35 years. Starting Evos, the predecessor of Tura in 1987, he has contributed as both an artist/musician and a producer during that time. Tos’s role as Artistic Director, curator and arts advocate has seen the initiation and roll out of a whole raft of projects and programs across Australia and internationally.

Originally engaging with Tura as a performer locally and regionally, Tristen now holds the position of General Manager. A broad skill set both on and off the stage, Tristen curates, develops, presents, and tours new work and existing programs. He works closely with artists and creatives, providing artistic, technical and management support to realise work and create engaging and meaningful experiences.

Musician, researcher and educator Dr Gillian Howell is a musical connector and changemaker whose creative practice and applied research investigate the social, cultural and political contributions of place-based community music making. Much of her work concerns music in peacebuilding, community dialogue, and self-determination in places recovering from war, crisis, or disaster. Gillian is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and has been the director of Tura’s Sound FX community music partnership program in the Kimberley since it began in 2017.

Pauline has a strong interest in culture, the arts and finance. This has led to a career as a freelance bookkeeper/BAS agent to various arts companies and small businesses. Pauline has been working in the accounts industry for over 20 years and enjoys being surrounded with the creativity that the arts sector brings.

Philip is a sound artist, researcher, and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. Working across Antarctica and sub-Antarctica, the Swiss and Australian Alps, and the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia, his practice is based on deep fieldwork where he deploys complex sound recording technology to capture natural, anthropogenic, and geophysical forces.

He is a Professor at RMIT University, and the recipient of multiple Australian Antarctic Territory Fellowships. He is currently leading a 20-year longitudinal sound study of Antarctica examining the continent’s changing sonic ecology. Philip’s work has been presented widely in Europe and Asia, including exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, China, and Japan, and he has collaborated with leading organisations such as the Australian Network for Art and Technology, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, High Altitude Research Station (Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat), National Gallery of Victoria, and the University of the Philippines Centre for Ethnomusicology among others.

Philip is the Lead Sound Artist for Tura x Martumilli Artists’ Kulinipaliju (2018-ongoing).

Acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest didjeridu players, Mark Atkins is also recognised internationally for his collaborative projects with some of the world’s leading composers and musicians. A descendant of Western Australia’s Yamitji people, as well as of Irish/Australian heritage, Mark is known not only for his masterly playing, but also as a storyteller, composer, percussionist, visual artist and instrument maker. Mark has performed alongside and composed with artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Philip Glass, Donald Lunney, Ornette Coleman, Peter Sculthorpe, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Gondwana, Jenny Morris, John Williamson, James Morrison, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). He is a founding member of Black Arm Band.

Erkki Veltheim is an Australian/Finnish composer and performer. His practice spans noise, audiovisual installation, improvisation, notated music, electroacoustic composition, pop arrangements and cross-disciplinary performance.

Erkki has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsinki and composed the orchestral works for celebrated Australian indigenous musician Gurrumul's posthumous album Djarimirri.

He is the co-creator of Tura’s commissioned and produced Mungangga Garlagula and was a long-term collaborator for Tura’s Kimberley Touring Program.

Geoff Warn is the Founder and Creative Director of With Architecture Studio, bringing more than 40 years’ experience in urban design, master planning, arts and cultural projects, educational facilities, and civic architecture. A leading advocate for design excellence and creative practice, Geoff has played a significant role in shaping Western Australia’s built environment through both practice and public leadership.

Geoff served as the Government Architect of Western Australia, where he provided strategic design leadership across major public projects including Perth Stadium, the WA Museum, Elizabeth Quay, and MetroNet, while contributing to the Design WA planning reform initiative. He was previously Professor of Architecture at Curtin University and has served on numerous design review and planning panels. His work has received multiple awards, including George Temple-Poole Awards and the Premier’s Award for Civic Design, and has been featured in the Venice Biennale.

Tui Raven is a proud Yamaji Nyungar woman based in Naarm/Melbourne, currently working as Manager Creative Content at the Government of Western Australia Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport.

Tui has held curatorial, managerial and research roles including at Deakin University, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, John Curtin Gallery, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the State Library of Western Australia. She is a co-founder of the Australian Reparative Description Community of Practice and has contributed widely to national sector development, including authoring the 2023 Guidelines for First Nations Collections Description with ALIA, AIATSIS, CAVAL, and CAUL.

Tui was also an associate producer and on-screen investigator for WA content in the SBS/NITV/Channel 10 documentary series The First Inventors (2020–2023), and in 2024 contributed to A Guide for Curriculum Development – First Nations Australians Science. She is an active member of ALIA’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Expert Group, the Attorney-General’s Copyright and AI Reference Group, and IFLA’s Indigenous Matters Section.

Siu Chan is a senior arts and cultural leader with more than 20 years’ experience shaping cultural life in Naarm/Melbourne, with a strong focus in positioning the arts as an integral part of everyday community wellbeing and civic life.

Siu has held senior arts and culture roles at Yarra City Council and City of Boroondara, leading cultural programming and strategic development, and is widely recognised for her work advocating for accessible, community-led creative practice. She has also worked with leading organisations including Next Wave and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and began her career at the North Richmond Community Health Centre, an early pioneer in integrating arts, health, and wellbeing. She has served on the boards of La Mama Theatre, the Inner North Community Foundation, and previously Multicultural Arts Victoria.

Dr Jasmin Stephens is an independent curator and lecturer who lives in Sydney on Gadigal Country. Jasmin has specialist interests in contemporary art in Australia and Southeast Asia and in transnational exhibition methodologies. Following senior roles with Artbank, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Fremantle Arts Centre, she has pursued a context-responsive practice since 2011—shaped by the specificity of local relations and the breadth of international ideas. Since 2016, Jasmin has taught curatorial studies at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney (sessional) and guest lectured with Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Jasmin has recently worked with artists Debra Phillips (2023) and Alana Hunt (2025) developing solo projects and curated the research-based North Terrace: worlds in relief with Samstag Museum and the Architecture Museum, Adelaide University (2025). In mentoring and policy roles, Jasmin has worked with Create NSW, Creative Australia and Contemporary Art Tasmania. Previously, she was awarded the Western Australian Government’s Senior Creative Development Fellowship (2012) in recognition of her work conceptualising and leading multi-year projects with interdiscipinary teams at Fremantle Arts Centre.

Julian Tompkin grew up in the remote Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia on the fringes of the Great Victoria Desert. He has been exploring the far-flung reaches ever since – both physically and through his regular cultural articles and essays published nationally and worldwide. A former newspaper editor, he has also held senior positions in the music industry, co-founded now-iconic brands – including Otherside Brewing Co/Freo Social – and curated major cultural events. In 2022, Tompkin was appointed Researcher in Residence and Guest Curator at the State Library of Western Australia, where he continued his passion for Australian history and stories. A board director of Australia’s leading sound art institution, Tura, Tompkin has also been invited to judge major literary awards, including the Walkley’s and the Premier’s Book Awards. A decade-long stint in Europe – where he served as Culture Editor for the German national broadcaster Deutsche Welle – would augur the international publication of his book Wanderlust in Berlin in 2020 (Hardie Grant). His second book, Undiscovered Western Australia – an exploration of country, culture and identity – followed in 2025 (Hardie Grant). Tompkin calls Walyalup (Fremantle) home.

Darren Grondal is a senior lawyer and regulatory advisor with Johnson Winter Slattery, based in Perth. He specialises in competition law, third party access, economic regulation, and infrastructure development, with more than 30 years’ experience across legal and commercial practice. He has advised extensively across the rail, gas, electricity, LNG, port, transport, mining, water, and FMCG sectors throughout Australia and Asia.

Darren has worked on major projects, market reform and privatisation processes, as well as commercial and regulatory arrangements relating to rail, gas, electricity, water, and port infrastructure. His expertise spans mergers and acquisitions, misuse of market power, cartel conduct, and regulatory authorisation processes, and he is consistently recognised by independent legal directories as a leading practitioner in competition, energy, and natural resources law. Darren has also lectured in Competition Law and Policy at Curtin University and served on the inaugural Curtin Law School Advisory Board.