Dameeli Coates is a Wakka Wakka woman whose matriarchal family are from Southern Queensland. She is a mother, sister, textile artist and designer who grew up on Kaurna Yarta. She spent 20 years working as a Human Rights campaigner in Indigenous affairs. She has an Honours degree in Textile Design from Central Saint Martin’s College, London. Her curatorial interests stem from her Honours research, examining the relationships between dispossession, displacement and settler colonial borders on Indigenous identities and collective sense of belonging.