NICOLE SMEDE

Nicole Smede is a multi-disciplinary artist of Worimi and European descent, living and creating on Wodi Wodi Country. Proud of her lineage, she works through language to reconnect to ancestry and culture using voice, song, sound and poetry to explore connection, relationship, and ancestry. She is the Senior Manager, First Nations for Red Room Poetry, honoured to be the custodian of program Poetry in First Languages.

Nicole has performed at Parliament House, City Recital Hall, Mona Foma Festival, and galleries and venues across Australia and her voice has been heard globally on award-winning film scores. Nicole has created meditations, songs, soundscapes and music for podcasts and plays and her poetry can be found in journals, visual and sound pieces, exhibitions, publications and anthologies.

 In 2020, Nicole was the co-recipient of the 2020 Shoalhaven Arts Board Grant, a finalist in the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize and shortlisted for the 2020 Red Room Poetry Fellowship. In 2022 Nicole was a recipient of the inaugural Space to Create residency through Australia Council, Yil Lull Studio and ANU. In 2023 Nicole is a participant in Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program working with Ensemble Offspring and a mentee through both the APRA AMCOS Women in Music program and South Coast Writers Centre Emerging Writers program.