Zara Sully - Director

Zara Sully lives and works near the banks of the kanamaluka in Lutruwita (Launceston, Tasmania) but spent most of their life on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nation. They are firstly an artist but also an arts worker, curator, and researcher.

As an artist and curator, Sully’s current practice delves into the pertinence and fluidity of language – engaging with intersectional feminist theory and exploring the decentralising of queerness through a performative practice.

Zara is a graduate of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University. Previous shows include It's All We Have (2025, artist), Hot Mess (2024, co-curated with Beau Palmer), Isn't it Ironic (2023), Yours Queerly (2021, artist and co-curator), and On Screen, In the Flesh (2021). Current projects include Ways of Knowing, a collaboration between the University of Tasmania and Sawtooth ARI, and their ongoing curatorial work at Sawtooth. 

Zara is the current director of Sawtooth ARI. Zara is also passionate about the roles of artist-run-initiatives in the arts-ecology..