About Me
Moale James-Proud curates and facilitates gatherings centred on care, storytelling and community led practice.
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Moale James-Proud is a second-generation migrant with ancestry to Papua New Guinea and Scotland. At the centre of her practice is gathering — the kind that makes room for care, grief, joy, and the stories that shape us. This has seen her work as an - Artist, Facilitator, Writer, Journalist, Curator, Creative Producer - but at her core, she is a storyteller.
Raised in a community of educators and artists, Moale’s work spans theatre, live events, podcasts, print media, photography, spoken word and community workshops. Her experience spans creating with and alongside community arts projects and at times in partnership with non-profit organizations, grassroots initiatives, private institutions, and government arts agencies.
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Moale’s approach is slow and consent-led: listening first, designing with community, and building spaces where they can speak, be held, and be heard.
MUSEUM OF BRISBANE | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LEAD | NOV 2025 - PRESENT
KIRK ROBSON COMMUNITY ARTS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD RECIPIENT FOR EMERGING ARTS LEADER | 2025 RECIPIENT
THE MATRIARCHS BANQUET | CREATOR & CREATIVE PRODUCER | CURRENT ARTWORK
QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE | PRODUCER | 2025
NATIONAL EARLY YEARS POLICY SUMMIT AT QPAC'S OUT OF THE BOX FESTIVAL 2025
WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL BRISBANE | PRODUCER | 2025 Season
ALCHEMY AFTERNOONS | LUNAR LOUNGE | FUSION ON THE GREEN | RESEARCHERS ON TAP | UNSEEN WORLDS
ABC PACIFIC RADIO | PRODUCER | 2024 Season
STORIES FROM THE PACIFIC
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | PRODUCER | 2024
NATURE'S LEADING WOMEN
WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL BRISBANE | PRODUCER | 2024 Season
SOCIAL SCIENCE | ART & ACTIVISM: CARING FOR COUNTRY
BRISBANE FESTIVAL | PRODUCER | 2023 Season
SERENADES | COMMUNITIES | 80'S KING ST. PARTY | KIDCHELLA | COMMUNITY HEROES
CURATOR IN-RESIDENCE, PACIFIC ART | QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, GALLERY OF MODERN ART | 2022 - 2023
WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL BRISBANE | ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | 2023 Season
BLAK FRIDAY | PRODUCER; CONTRACTED BY BLAK SOCIAL | 2022
CURATOR AND KEY-CREATIVE | HERU PINKASOVA'S BILUM MAMMA 'BILUM STORIES' | 2022
BRISBANE FESTIVAL | ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | 2022 Season
QUEEN'S CITY | DANCE HALLS | BRISBANE SERENADES
BLAKTIVISM | PRODUCER; CONTRACTED BY GABA MUSIK | 2022
COLOUR BOX STUDIO | PROGRAM MANAGER | 2022
QAGOMA ARTLINES I PUBLICATION, ACE Project Making space/s | 2022
QAGOMA ARTLINES | PUBLICATION, Healing the spirit of collections | 2022
COLOUR BOX STUDIOS I INTERVIEWEE | 2021
OUR KNOWLEDGE, OUR PRACTICE, OUR STORIES | PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR | 2021-2022
QAGOMA APT10 | RESEARCH ASSISTANT | 2021
QAGOMA CURATORIAL PACIFIC ART DEPARTMENT | VOLUNTEER | 2020-PRESENT
QAGOMA ACAPA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECT | PROJECT ASSISTANT, CATALYST, WRITER | 2020-PRESENT
PACIFIC FASHION FESTIVAL | MODEL | 2019
PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH | PUBLICATION, Citizen journalism countering deliberate media silence | 2019
HORIZONS FESTIVAL | EXHIBITION PARTICIPANT, Our people, Our Place
ACAPA PILOT PROJECT | CONVERSATION PARTICIPANT | 2018
WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL | WORKSHOP CO-ORDINATOR | 2017-2019
QAGOMA ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS; 8TH AND 9TH ITERATION | 2015 I 2016 I 2018
ASCENSION MAGAZINE | PUBLICATION, Bilum Mama | 2016
ASCENION MAGAZINE | PUBLICATION, Gini Goada, Gini Auka | 2016
TEDX TALK | 2016
