The Micro Galleries Team

Artistic Director / Kat Roma Greer

Though usually with wind-swept hair and the look of death on her face for other reasons on-site at MG, our Artistic Director Kat Roma Greer is the force behind the creative crazy. ⁣
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Based in Asia, Kat is a public art curator, artistic director, maker, activist, founder of social initiatives, and mum to one cheeky 5-year-old (whom she hopes she is building into a tiny social warrior to accompany her on future adventures). If her practice could be summed up in one sentence it would be: recognising and facilitating the possibility⁣ for change through the arts. All of her creative endeavours are steeped in the belief that art can be a catalyst and vehicle for change, empathy, education, social enquiry, placemaking, action and empowerment. With a multi-disciplinary background that includes voice, contemporary performance-making and installation, and academia, her curatorial interests lay in bringing together diverse and unexpected groups, practices and industries to instigate a collision of visual, virtual and live art with marginalised and low socioeconomic groups: i.e people who need and deserve art the most. ⁣
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She has recently returned from the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency where she continued her research and activations on climate disruption art and artists in this vital issue, on the back of this was offered a place to attend @algore’s @climatereality Leadership Corps, is the curator and writer for @urbannasty, an Advisor the International organisation @unitedsketches, was a Director and Chair for alternative art space @redrattlersydney, shortlisted for @sydney_uni Alumni awards and was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for 2015, for her work in the cultural sphere.⁣
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Her hobbies include: begging for money to run these programs, working perched on uncomfortable benches whilst waiting for said son to finish a dance class he doesn’t want to be at, and applying sarcasm to all scenarios, convinced it’s as pertinent as wit. ⁣
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Image by the stunning and humble Mareike von Engelbrechten at @mve.streetstudio ⁣

⁣Artistic Associate / Sarah Sculley

Sarah has now been in the creative art space for over 15 years. She studied a Bachelor of Design Studies majoring in Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the Queensland College of Art and received a scholarship from Griffith University to study abroad at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Since starting to exhibit her work in 2005, she has held international solo and group shows in China, USA, Nepal and Indonesia, and has been regularly featured in Australian art shows. Sarah is currently a Sessional Academic at the Queensland University of Technology teaching in the Creative Industries Department.

Artistic Associate / Olga Trevisan

Olga is the founder and manager of the creative business Eltyburon and the art project Ollla at Work. She is fascinated by the potential of simple ideas and actions, and how they can subtly intersect in people’ s everyday life/reality. Olga is involved in European as well as international projects. She lives in Italy, where she is fighting for a more sustainable and peaceful way of living.

Artistic Associate / Vivien Poly

Vivien is a photographer and wheat-paste artist. He’s worked in the music industry for international Jazz artists. He later became a filmmaker and had his own culinary show on French TV. He’s now living between Indonesia and Europe and is travelling around the world to portray human souls.

Artistic Associate / Helena Asha Knox

Helena Asha Knox is a researcher on transculturalism and cultural (re-)negotiations with the focus on power analysis, intersectionality, Critical Whiteness and deconstruction. She is the founder and main curator of Kaalo.101, an independent and anti-commercial art space in Patan, Kathmandu.

Head of Visual Narrative / Lara Furst

Lara is an intrepid documentary photographer-of-life on planet Earth. Making the world a better place with a camera and a lot of hope, she’s known for her ninja-style antics to get the candid shots that show real feelings and unexpected moments. She is a feminist, mother, and change-maker. She has a contagious enthusiasm to make good things happen in any context – from making lanterns on a tarp in Kathmandu to photographing with a parrot on her shoulder.

Global Director of Videography / Sabrina Dangol

Sabrina Dangol is a freelance photographer/videographer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She uses visual media as the medium of storytelling. Her work mostly comprises of documentary photography, photo stories, and street photography.