Everybody NOW! creates participatory arts projects that generate joy. Proudly based on the Gold Coast, as a HOTA Home Company, Everybody NOW! is an Impact award-winning organisation dedicated to the creation of high-quality, community-engaged arts projects, that are made with and for community, alongside outstanding professional artists.

Since 2015 we’ve reached over 80,000 people, aged between 3 and 100 years young in 250+ communities across Australia, creating a range of innovative arts projects from slam poetry for seniors, intergenerational radio stations, roller skating rock shows, artists-in-residencies, digital programs, large-scale social dance works, to industry and community workshops and talks.

Morag Myerscough is an acclaimed UK artist and designer, renowned for her vibrant and immersive public art installations that transform urban environments. She is best known for her use of bold colours, patterns, and words to create spaces that foster a sense of community, belonging, and joy.

Myerscough’s work spans a wide range of projects, from schools and hospitals to cultural hubs and town centres, often involving local communities in the design process to reflect their cultural identity and shared history.

Myerscough’s work is instantly recognizable for its energy and ability to resonate with diverse audiences worldwide, having been featured in cities across the globe, including London, USA, Hong Kong, and Mexico City.

In addition to her design work, Myerscough is a passionate advocate for belonging, often speaking about the importance of creating spaces that promote inclusivity.

Kate Baggerson is a highly experienced leader in the arts and cultural sector, having worked across a range of arts organisations, not-for-profits and community cultural development initiatives Australia wide. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Australian Arts Organisation Everybody NOW!, where she has strategically guided the company through a highly successful period of growth since formation in 2015, reaching over 85,000 people in 250 communities across Australia.

She has worked for leading national arts organisations such as; Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart, MONA FOMA Festival, Tasmanian Regional Arts, Woodford Folk Festival, Garma Festival, HOTA Home of the Arts, and Bleach* Festival.

Kate has a passion for community placemaking, social impact and telling stories that make us who we are, and who we can become, through participatory and immersive creative experiences where audiences, artists and communities are co-creators.

Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist. Based between the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Northern Territory and New Delhi, India, Naina works across documentary, installation and live projection, using image making to explore gender, cultural identity, equity, place, memory and ritual privileging First Nations and South Asian and South Asian diasporic narratives.

Most recently, Naina and co-collaborators Harrison Hall and Naveed Farro’s sculptural video installation work Through Line has been awarded Adelaide Film Festival’s prestigious Expand Lab Moving Image Commission that will premiere at Adelaide Film Festival 2026.

Naina is currently touring her most recent and ambitious video work to date, large scale, immersive video installation সুন্দরী Shundori, that deconstructs the Indian Feminine, exploring the intersections of ritual, mythology, sexuality and the politics of body.

Holly is an international best-selling author and TV presenter for ABC’s Back to Nature. 

She is best known for her 2018 novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which won the 2019 General Fiction Book of the Year Award, and was adapted into a television miniseries in 2023.

Holly grew on the Gold Coast and returned home in 2020 after living abroad. In addition to her best-selling fictions Holly regularly writes & speaks on topics of belonging & creativity. In 2023, she authored her first non-fiction The House The Joy Built, and has recently published her newest book The World Beneath Her Feet.

Everybody NOW! has commissioned Holly to write a new poem in response to Morag’s BEACON installation. Her work With A Light Left On will be performed by a 200 person choir as part of the 2026 BLEACH Festival.

Riannon McLean is a dance artist, creator, mentor and choreographer. A member of Australasian Dance Collective (formally EDC, Expressions Dance Company) from 2007 to 2013, she has performed in Australia and on the international stage.

Riannon’s teaching capabilities, passion for education and mentorship have seen her teach as a guest teacher and choreographer throughout Australia and for international companies and training schools.

Erica Eurel is a Traditional Custodian from the Yugambeh Language Region of the Gold Coast, as well as descendant of the Aboriginal people from Wollumbin Mount Warning.

Erica has a passion for connecting with the community, sharing culture and supporting the wide community to increase their understanding and respect for the culture. She works with Indigenous artists and craftsmen and women and regularly runs weaving workshops with community groups, young people, in education and corporate settings.

With his head in the clouds and his feet planted firmly on the ground, Claudio Kirac’s work investigating themes of nostalgia, shared experience and joy.

Known for his bold use of color and expressive mark-making, he explores these themes through layered and energetic abstract paintings and portraiture, often drawing inspiration from nature, landscapes and gardens, as well as pop culture and the everyday.

Over a career spanning 25 years, Kirac’s work has found a home in prestigious collections including HOTA Home of the Arts, the National Library of Australia, the New York State Library and Louis Vuitton Asia Pacific, as well as in private collections worldwide.

Recently, he was selected as the Jumbled Art Superstar (2024), recognised as a finalist in both the Harden Landscape Prize (2024) and The Darling Portrait Prize (2024), and featured in HOTA’s Gold Coast Triennial: Here & Now.

Michelle Le Plastrier is a Gold Coast–based multidisciplinary artist with a focus on hand-built
ceramics, who explores identity, socio-political, and environmental issues all in her signature candy coloured style. 

Michelle has been working with Morag Myerscough as part of the local artist team painting the massive large-scale installation BEACON. Michelle has created this workshop inspired by Morag’s artwork and grounded in her own practice which explores colour, shape and environment.

James Kerwin is a deaf mime artist, actor and a qualified and registered teacher. He has a teaching background in Auslan teaching to hearing students and English literacy to deaf students. James returned to the performing arts after many years in education. He is passionate about physical storytelling, visual theatre and mime performance. James is interested in developing original mime works, colloborative theatre projects and delivering mime workshops for both young people and adults. He bring a unique perspective to performance through movement, expression and inclusive creative practice.