Sherene Stewart

Sherene Stewart is a Taungurung/Filipino woman, director, curator and producer living and working on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country. Sherene was appointed Co-Lead/Creative Lead for internationally renowned First Nations biennial festival, YIRRAMBOI, in 2022. 
 
Sherene produces multimedia facilitations of First Nations art, successfully platforming the developments, performances, installations, and world premieres of multitudes of First Nations artists. YIRRAMBOI evokes a collective evolutionary resilience, through embodiment and presentation of interconnectivity and curatorial amplifications of diversity. Sherene curates collaborative, anti-hierarchical approaches to the facilitation of artistic involvement. She prefaces equitable and commodious collaboration and inclusion for First Nations artists and communities across a local, national and global scale. 
 
Sherene has co-founded, curated, and produced for council and arts organisations since 2015, with credits inclusive of; YIRRAMBOI (2017-Present), Ouss Entertainment Pty Ltd (2020-Present), BlakHEART Festival (2019), City of Melbourne, Events and Tourism (2015 – 2018) and co-led the delivery of Creative Victoria, First Peoples Road Show (2022), Its A Mob Thing Music and Health Festival (Melbourne, Bairnsdale & Mildura 2022) and Victorian NAIDOC Ball & Pride night (202