Co-directors

Arts Career Development Opportunities – Gain vital skills and experience by volunteering at Cell Art Space. Cell Art Space is an artist run initiative, managed on a voluntary not-for-profit basis. Year round applications are accepted for new Cell Art Space Co-Directors. If you’re looking to build a career as an arts manager or curator please download an application form.


BUSTOS Crystal

Crystal is an artist, freelance photographer, graphic designer. She holds an Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design from Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts North Sydney and currently studying a BA in Creative Industries at James Cook University Cairns. Crystal has accompanied local bands touring around FNQ as their personal photographer, worked with local musicians for self-promotional material and photographed local weddings and events in Cairns and remote communities.

Crystal online www.crystalbustos.com.au

SHAW Rachel

Rachel is an emerging artist originally from the Blue Mountains, NSW. Rachel is passionate about all forms of art and music. Rachel has always enjoyed expressing herself through her art; primarily paintings and drawings.
Rachel online www.artbyrachelshaw.webs.com/

VAUGHN Angel

Angel has lived in Cairns since June 2009, after moving to Australia from the United States. Angel holds an associate degree in Visual Arts majoring in Photography from Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA.  Angel is completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries at James Cook University, Cairns.
Angel online www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1053623814

WILKIE-JANS Jack

Jack is a much travelled local artist who currently calls Cairns home. Using the medias of painting and film, his abstract works convey certain meanings through either text or mime. Jack is coordinating his own arts initiative as a mentee in the 2011 Starburst Regional Mentoring Program through partnerships with Youth Arts Queensland, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns Regional Council and local youth charity organisations.