Meet the Toolkits: Graphic Narratives 2024 participants
Say hello to the young writers who will be taking part in this season of Toolkits: Graphic Narratives! Facilitated Bailey Sharp, this 12-week program is designed to combine theoretical approaches, practical exercises, and group workshopping to guide young writers through the development of their work.
These workshops offer a unique developmental opportunity for participants to work one-on-one with the facilitar, hear from industry guests, and forge creative community.
Ash Djokic (he/him)
Ash Djokic is a cartoonist and animator who loves to draw and meander. He likes to make films with drawings, scratch-film, sand-animation, and shadow puppets. Ash spends most of his free time day and night serialising a surreal comic called 'Nina', which follows an inner child gone wild. Ash uses traditional and hand-made methods, and enjoys tapping into memories, dreams, and perversions to develop stories.
@ashdjokic
Charlotte Sherlock (she/her)
Charlotte Sherlock is a writer, comic book enthusiast, and has watched more than one film in her lifetime. She's incredibly nerdy, and very humble as well – fascinated by irony, and great at writing captions.
@charlotteizbae
Sophia Thomas (she/her)
Sophia is an artist and writer living and working on Wurundjeri country, Naarm. Sophia incorporates her Trans identity and Health issues into her stories. She continually wants to work on her writing and drawing and would love to be the Queer representation she wanted to see when she was younger.
@sophcat.art
Jamie Florence (he/him)
Coming to grips with his tendency to follow countless rabbit holes, Jamie Florence is a Boorloo based artist found mainly gravitating towards printmaking and illustration. A student of Fine Arts at UWA and an art technician in education, he looks to further immerse himself in the industry in the future.
@jayeeflo
Stella Theocharides (they/them)
Stella Theocharides lives in Preston, Naarm. They work in organic farming, growing veg on unceded Wurundjeri land. Their work has been published in The Suburban Review and Meanjin, and they have edited poetry for Voiceworks for around three years now. They were part of the 2024 Hot Desk Fellowship. They draw comics.
@stheocharides_
Maya Templer (she/her)
Maya K Templer is an animator and illustrator from Aotearoa/New Zealand, with a strong imagination and a knack for distilling a broad range of influences into her distinctive style. Recently, her work has included environmental communication with emerging podcast The Seed Pod and a baker’s dozen of vibrant poster designs for music-makers across the country. In her spare time, Maya enjoys cycling, swimming and gardening.
@mktempler
Sunny Tandoc (they/them)
Sunny Tandoc is a multi-disciplinary artist and animator located in Melbourne, Australia. Their practice incorporates a combination traditional and digital mediums to explore their identity as a queer Filipinx/o-Australian with lived experience with mental health. Sunny was a grant recipient of VicScreen's Originate Program in 2023 and a Finalist in 2021 for the Midsumma. They were also a Semi-Finalist for AniMate Season 3. Sunny has completed a Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media) at RMIT.
@tand0c
Selina Moir-Wilson (he/they)
Selina Moir-Wilson is a writer, cartoonist and the editor of Voiceworks magazine.
@pr1nce_snufkin
Sharyn Sale (they/she)
Sharyn Sale is a 19-year-old visual artist and writer who loves drawing pictures, telling stories, and cutting up and rearranging things. They enjoy listening to loud music and long walks through the cemetery. Their work is influenced by the dreamlike, subcultural allegiances, and collage. Their art has been shown at Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gallery and Art Gallery of New South Wales, and comics have been published in Voiceworks and Two Wolves Digest.
@junkyard1982