On the Couch

Join Beck as she chats with Darwin artists about their work, achievements, doubts and inspirations. And bringing the On the Couch tunes is vocalist Joanne Davis.

On The Couch Guests: Saturday July 13th
Bustard Town

Tickets avaliable through Darwin Fringe Festival

Alexandra Edmondson is a writer / filmmaker. She tells stories that explore the world
through a female, queer and neurodivergent lens. Alex began her career working in
script development at Bazmark, Baz Luhrmann’s Sydney based production
company.
Alex wrote and directed The Burnt Cork, a confronting portrayal of 1950′s rural
Australia, which was nominated for several awards at the St Kilda Film Festival and
won the Black Shorts Award at Adelaide Shorts Film Festival. The Burnt Cork was
broadcast on SBS. Alex also wrote and directed The Passenger, which screened at
numerous festivals and was broadcast on ABC. Most recently Alex produced the
documentary Amye Number 1, which is available worldwide on Al Jazeera. Her
screenplays have been shortlisted for awards and development labs including the
prestigious Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Last year she developed a new work for
theatre with support of Browns Mart Theatre Build Up Initiative, which is part of the
2024 Darwin Fringe Festival.
Alex has also been a story producer for SPUN: True Stories from the Territory; and
she has collaborated on multimedia installations for the Museum and Art Gallery of
the Northern Territory, Casula Powerhouse, Beams Festival and Airspace Projects in
Sydney.

Cyan Sue-Lee is an Indigenous artist from North Australia. She draws upon her multicultural
heritage and love for the natural environment to inform her multidisciplinary works.
Cyan Sue-Lee is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and Karajarri woman and multidisciplinary
artist. Born and raised on her homelands of the Darwin region, she was brought up in a highly
creative and artistic family.
It has been a lifelong practice to express herself through art. Cyan draws on her multicultural
heritage, ancient storytelling practices and love of the natural environment to inspire and inform
her paintings and sculptural works, utilising acrylic, natural pigments, fabric, clay and wire.

Kuya James is both an ARIA nominated producer and artist living on Larrakia land in Darwin,
Northern Territory.

The first-born son to a Filipino father and a Dutch mother, James would earn his stage name early
in life simply by being the eldest. “Kuya” in the national Filipino tongue means “older brother”. A
term of endearment and respect that he would gain not only from his biological family, but from the
families he has made within communities spanning music, dance, culture and theatre; locally in
Darwin, nationally and internationally.
Starting out as a bass player in church, he went on to play 100s of gigs with bands of many
different genres, leading him to joining a Hip Hop collective in the late 90s and realising that he
wanted to do more with the music than just bass lines; he wanted to produce.
James has made records with many artists including Emily Wurramara, Tasman Keith, Caiti
Baker, B2M, A.B Original and Daniel Johns amongst others. With a twenty year career behind
him, in the past five years, James have been committed to projects and new performance work
which centre around Asian/Australian stories and are collaborations with Asian/Australian artists.