Studio Kiin is an Indigenous led creative studio founded by Emele Ugavule. We are a family of storytellers who are working to normalise story sovereignty, cultivate kinship and prioritise healing in creative practice. We are passionate about empowering artists and organisations to lead with culturally responsive, ethical and sustainable creative practice.

Rusty is a self taught, TSI, Fijian and cookislander artist. Flowing between genres of neo expressionism, urban art, contemporary and dreamy surrealism. Their elders have been a driving force behind their creativity, story telling has always been a way of life for them.

Sereana Suguturaga is a 24-year-old Fijian artist currently residing in Adelaide, South Australia. Starting out by scribbling tribal patterns on pieces of paper, she began to draw and paint Fijian patterns onto canvas, using a range of different colours rather than just the traditional black, white and brown. Eventually she created her Instagram account and, after much encouragement from family and friends, started her small business – Faith Creatives – in 2018. She completed a Diploma of Business with the South Australian Institute of Business & Technology in 2020. She is now studying at the University of South Australia, where she is in her second year of a Bachelor of Business: Tourism & Event Management, hoping to graduate at the end of next year.

Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan Fijian storyteller. Her research and practice area of interest is Oceanic Indigenous-led storytelling, working across live performance, film, tv & digital media as a writer, director, creative producer, performer, educator and mentor. Her work explores creative processes and outcomes grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, and nurturing the vā where embodiment, cultural expression, digitisation and neuroscience intersect.