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Elijah Miima Money
Wiradjuri Brotherboy
Multidisciplinary Creative
Based in Narrm (Melbourne)

Contents:
Education
Recipient
Participant
Curator
MC & Hosting
Performing
Producing & Other Work
Speaker
Visual Art
Workshops
Writing
Media & Links

Elijah Money is a proud Wiradjuri queer brotherboy, raised and residing on Kulin Nations. As a multidisciplinary creative, his work spans visual art, writing, creative producing, workshop facilitator, public speaking and performance. Deeply personal and politically charged, Elijah’s practice reflects his lived experience as a multifaceted individual. His work is grounded in celebrating First Peoples' queer joy and fostering spaces of empowerment. Using storytelling and self expression, Elijah continues to challenge narratives by using compassion and pride.

Education

University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
Major: Indigenous Studies

2022

Recipient

Creative Australia Grant
(MoCo for “Three Blak Ravers”)

Creative Ventures Funding
(MoCo)

First Peoples Creative Spaces
(MoCo)

Best Film and Visual Art “A Rainbow of Tomorrows”
for Melbourne Fringe Awards

Magabala Scholarship

Creative Victoria Grant

Creative Victoria Grant

2025

2024

2024

2022

2021

2021

2020

Participant

“Black Marks”
(Arts House X YIRRAMBOI)

Participant “Blak Design”
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

Participant “Storyteller Session/Jazz Money”
(Westspace)

“Poetry and the Political” with Jeanine Leanne
(NextWave)

Writing Residency
(MPavilion)

Participant “Time After Time”
(Free Association)

“And Also Presents” Artist Residency
(Siteworks)

2022 - 2023

2022

2022

2020

2020

2019

2019

Curator

“A Rainbow of Tomorrows”
(Koorie Heritage Trust X Melbourne Fringe)

“Sight for Sore Eyes”
(Blak Dot Gallery X Midsumma)

2022

2020

MC & Hosting

MC for MoCo Graduation
(Kensignton Town Hall)

MC for Q&A “Celebrating Art as a Fashion Practice”
(narrm ngarru Library X PayPal Fashion Festival)

MC for “Summer Break” Commission Show
(MoCo X Midsumma)

MC for TILDE Film Festival Launch
(Footscray Community Arts Centre)

MC for Queer Vic NAIDOC Gala
(Vic NAIDOC X Fitzroy Town Hall)

MC for MoCo Variety Night
(Victorian Pride Centre)

MC for “Pride KIN-ection x MoCo”
Street Party Main Stage
(Ben Graetz Production X Midsumma)

MC for “Creatures of the Blak Lagoon”
(Melbourne Fringe Commission)

MC for “Blak Design Matters Forum”
(Koorie Heritage Trust, The Edge)

Hosted “Youth Extravaganza”
(Minus18)

Hosted “HyperPop”
(Loop Bar, CandyFlop)

Hosted “SMASH: the Drag Show”
(Abbotsford Convent, Midsumma Festival)

Hosted “SMASH: the Drag Show” Preview
(Midsumma Carnival)

Host “Club Smash Gen II”
(online)

Host “Club Smash”
(online)

Drag Story Time
(YIRRAMBOI, Yarra City Library)

Hosted Q&A “Deadly Poets Yarn”
(MPavilion)

Hosted Launch for n-SCRIBE
(Darebin Council)

Hosted Q&A with Shonae Hobson
(Arts West Gallery Uni Melb)

Hosted Miss Burlesque & Boylesque Judge

MC for ASRC Fundraiser
(Noisy Ritual)

Hosted Q&A with Sister Zai
(Emerging Writers Festival)

2026

2026

2026

2025

2025

2025

2025

2024

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2020

2020

2019

2019

2018

2018

Performing

SPILL Symposium
(University of Melbourne) 2026

MoCo Graduation
(Kensington Town Hall)

MoCo Showcase
(Portland Arts Centre) 2026

Window Activation Vic Street Pride Party
(Midsumma, Builders Arms) 2026

“Summer Break” Commission Show
(MoCo X Midsumma)

“Poems of a Transexual Nature” as Apollo Script Reading
(Melbourne Theatre Company)

“BLOWOUT” 20th Anniversary Celebration Party
(ArtsHouse)

“Three Blak Ravers” as Jiemba
(Malthouse Theatre, Yirramboi)

VACCHO NAIDOC Celebration

Vic NAIDOC Pride Gala
(Vic NAIDOC X Fitzroy Town Hall)

Djirra Family Day NAIDOC Event

“Pride KIN-ection x MoCo” for Street Party Main Stage
(Ben Graetz Production X Midsumma)

“Crepuscular” as the Goanna
(Sapphic Flicks X TILDE commission; short film played at multiple venues ACMI, Footscray Community Arts +)

“Creatures of the Blak Lagoon” as the Creature
(Melbourne Fringe Commission)

“Crip Rave Theory”
(Substation, Rising Festival)

“Figuring Ground” Closing Event Finissage
(Grafton Gallery NSW)

“Alluvium”
(Meat Market, Yirramboi)

“Boundless”
(Immigration Museum X Midsumma)

“Galaxy Party”
(online, Minus18)

“Block Party” Price Street Party
(Midsumma, Collingwood)

Story Time Drag Show
(ArtPlay X Midsumma)

Hunger Digital Launch
(Brunswick)

4Play
(Pride of our Footscray)

“The Birth of Dirty Versace”
(Miscellania Club)

"SMASH: the Drag Show”
(Abbotsford Convent X Midsumma Festival)

“SMASH: the Drag Show” Preview
(Midsumma Carnival)

“Mausoleum Vol 2”
(online)

“The Fae”
(SIGNAL Arts X YIRRAMBOI Festival)

Drag Story Time
(YIRRAMBOI Festival X Yarra City Library)

“Club Smash Gen II”
(online drag show)

“Club Smash”
(online drag show)

“SMASH: the Drag Show”
(Evies, Fitzroy)

“Portal”
(online drag show)

“The Kingdom”
(Midsumma Carnival)

“Batmania”
(Fringe Festival, Theatre Works)

“The Lizard is Present”
(Fringe Festival, Trades Hall)

“White Rabbit”
(Fringe Festival, Brunswick Mechanic Institute)

“Drag of Kwatye” dis rupt
(Hamer Hall X YIRRAMBOI Festival)

2026

2026

2026

2026

2026

2025

2025

2025

2025

2025

2025

2025

2024 - 2025

2024

2024

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2021

2021

2020

2020

2020

2019

2019

2019

2019

Producing & Other Work

Creative Lead for MoCo (Motherless Collective) 2023-2026

Judge “Creative Victoria: First Peoples Stream"

Facilitator “Face Painting by Community”
(Kirrip Community Centre)

Co-Producer: “A Rainbow of Tomorrows”
(Koorie Heritage Trust X Melbourne Fringe)

Emerging Editor
(Artlink)

Assisting “Shifting Ground” Presentation Workshops

Assisting Collaborator “Face Painting by Children”
(Werribee Mansion)

Associate Creative Producer “The Journey of Mapiyal”
(RMIT University)

Artist Liaison and Stage Management
(Malthouse, Yirramboi Festival)

Intern for Equity and Inclusion Team
(DHHS)

Events Co Ordinator & Invigilator “Awaken”
(Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne)

Intern
(Humanitarian Advisory Group)

Diversity and Inclusion National Consultant
(Australia Post)

2023 - 2026

2024

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021 - 2022

2021

2019 - 2020

2018 - 2020

2018 - 2019

2016 - 2018

Speaker

SPILL Symposium
(University of Melbourne)

“Poets of Protest and Empowerment”
(Trans Writing Festival X Wheelers Centre)

VACCHO Pride Policy Launch Panel Discussion
(Vic Pride Centre)

“Figuring Ground” Closing Event Finissage Panel Discussion
(Grafton Gallery, NSW)

“Queer PowerPoint”
(RISING Festival)

Interviewed for ABC Radio “Indigenous Drag Performers”

Q&A “The Critical Nature of Compassion”
Nevo Zisin with Alok V Menon
Compassion Revolution Conference
(The Edge)

Interview on ABC Radio “Blak Design”

Q&A “Elvis Direct from Graceland”
(Bendigo Gallery)

Lecture “Queer Indigenous Activism Through Art”
(Writing & Concepts X SIGNAL Arts)

Interview “Being Biracial” Podcast

Q&A “Indigenous Futurism in Drag”
Revolutions International Theatre Festival
(Online)

Lecture “Queer Indigenous Activism Through Art”
(University of Melbourne)

Lecture “Queer Indigenous Activism Through Art”
(ViewPoint Secondary)

Interview for SBS “NAIDOC Drag Performers”

Interview on RRR with Neil Morris (DRMNGNW)

Interview “Too Pretty to be Aboriginal”
Documentary Series (Aired on SBS)

2026

2025

2025

2023

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2020

2019

2019

2018

2017

Visual Art

“bottlebrush.bit”
Painting, Group Show Fledge Radiance
(Fortyfivedownstairs)

“Creature of the Blak Lagoon”
Installation, Artworks and Model
Exhibition with key collaborator Pierra Van Sparkes
(Launceston, Sawtooth ARI)

“Placid in Play”
Installation, Digital Artwork & Model contribution
MoCo (Motherless Collective: Cerulean, Stone Motherless Cold & I)
(Aderfeldie, Incinerator Gallery & BLINDSIDE)

Digital Artworks for Group show for ARISE Vol 2
(Abbotsford Convent)

Multimedium “gurudhaany” & Digital Fabric Artworks
“Salubrious Peril” and “Pearlescent Viscous”
Group Show Holding pattern (Haus of VoVo, Tasmania)

Metal Wearable Artwork “Namesake”
Group show Layers of Blak
(travelled: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, The Jam Factory, Seppeltsfield South Australia, Tarnanthi Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Gippsland Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery)
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

Digital Artworks “Bow Down Duo”
(YIRRAMBOI, Meat Market)

Digital Fabric Artworks “Salubrious Peril” and “Pearlescent Viscous"
Group show for The Body is More than This
(Midsumma X Immigration Museum)

Digital Fabric Artwork “Pearlescent Viscous"
Group show A Rainbow of Tomorrows
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

Video Artwork “Space for me, space for you?”
Group show A Space is Held
(Trocadero X Midsumma)

Mural Artwork
(Princes Hill Secondary College, Carlton)

Metal Wearable Artwork “Namesake”
Group show Layers of Blak
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

Mixed Media Artworks - multiple
Solo Show gurudhaany birranydyang
(Launceston, Sawtooth ARI)

Installation Artist for “18th Birthday Arch”
Emerging Writers Festival
(Brunswick Mechanic Institute)

Video Artwork “Soft Hands Can’t Remember”
Group show ALIWA!
(Brunswick Counihan Gallery)

Digital artwork
(Archer Magazine X NextWave)

Visual artist “Poetry and the Political”
(NextWave)

Installation Artist for Tesselate
(SubClub)

Artist for Don’t Forget Your Toes
(Gallery 17)

Artist “Windy Month”
Front and Centre installation
(NextWave, Brunswick Mechanic Institute)

Designed Front Cover for n-SCRIBE
(Darebin Council)

Installation Artist for CoolRoom
(WestRave, Due West)

“Soft Hands Can’t Remember”
Video Artwork
(Collingwood Yards)

“Eels” Mural (Two Piece)
Acquired by Medley Hall
(NextWave X Uni Melb)

Inaugural Artist
Tesselate
(Radar Bar)

Mural Paste Up
Collaboration with Pierra Van Sparkes
(Siteworks)

Then Exhibition
Group Show

Participated in Koorie Heritage Trust Annual Show
Group Show

Showed at “Medley Hall”
Group Show

Solo Installation
(Strawberry Fields Festival)

Spaghetti on the Wall Exhibition
Group Show

2026

2024

2024

2023

2023

2023 - 2025

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2020

2020

2020

2020

2020

2020

2020

2019

2019

2019

2019

2019

2016 - 2018

2016

2015

2015

Workshops

17 Week Creative Workshop
Personalised Program for Bridge-It
(Bridge-It X Linden Art Gallery)

“Stamping the Kulin Seasons” Run multiple times
(narrm ngarru Library)

“Creative Writing”
(narrm ngarru Library)

“Stamping the Kulin Seasons”
(Gasworks)

“Write it Loud” Writing & Performing Workshops for Signal Summer
(SIGNAL Arts X Kathleen Syme Library)

“First Printmaking Workshop”
Multiple Printing Styles
(Gasworks)

“5 Senses of Drag”
(Portland Arts Centre)

NAIDOC Community Mural
(Linden Art Gallery)

“Drawing Botanicals”
Run multiple times
(Linden Art Gallery)

“Zine Making Workshop”
(100 Story Building)

“MoCo BabyDrag Workshops”
12 part series
(Creative Ventures X MoCo)

“Drawing Animals with Elijah”
Workshop for Kids
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

“Drag Eye Makeup”
(Djirra Legal Centre)

“5 Senses of Drag”
(Koorie Youth Summit x YIRRAMBOI)

“Badge Making”
Workshop for Koorie Krismas
(Koorie Heritage Trust)

“Drawing Botanicals”
Workshop with collaborative artwork outcome
(Reservoir High School)

“MoCo Drag Mini Series: Makeup, Adornment & Movement”
(SIGNAL Arts)

“Seven Kulin Seasons”
Mural Workshop
(Carlton Primary School)

“Drawing Botanicals”
(QueerSpace)

“Face Paint by Children” for artist Dan Goronzy
(Various locations: Werribee Mansion, Rochella, South Morang Council, Melton South +)

“This is me, Bunting” for artist Dan Goronzy
(RMIT University, State Vic Library)

“Zine History and Making”
(QueerSpace)

“Zine History and Making”
(Medley Hall, University of Melbourne)

“Drawing Botanicals”
(Medley Hall, University of Melbourne)

“Discover Drag with Stone and Mora”
(SIGNAL Arts)

“Blak Futurism - Life Drawing”
A Rainbow of Tomorrows
(Koorie Heritage Trust X Melbourne Fringe Festival X City of Melbourne)

2026

2026

2026

2026

2026

2026

2026

2025

2025

2025

2025

2024

2024

2024

2023 - 2024

2023

2023

2023

2023

2022 - 2025

2022 - 2025

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

Writing

“Burn it Down” poem for FIT Edition
(Cordite Journal)

Poetry Reading “Queering Homes”
(Brunswick Library X Merri-Bek Council)

NAIDOC Reading Recommendations
(Kathleen Syme Library)

“Three Blak Ravers” Script Writer
(Malthouse Theatre, Yirramboi)

Commissioned poetry & reading “Beneath the Sky”
(Blak & Bright)

Review of Kyra Mancktelow “Unconstitutional Love”
(WestSpace)

Poetry Reading “The Bogong”
(Blak & Bright)

Opening essay “Figuring Ground” Exhibition
(Grafton Gallery NSW)

Poetry Reading Opening Night
(Emerging Writers Festival)

Reading
(Taking Up Space X GayTimes Festival)

Review of Arthur Jafa’s “Unrest”
(un Extended)

Review of Archie Moore’s “Dwelling-Victorian Issue”
(Memo Review)

Published poetry
(Westspace)

Reading & Publication
(Blindside ARI)

“Nourishing Vow for my Yulaany”
Taking Up Space
(Meat Market)

Reading & publication
(Heide Art Museum X Rabbit Journal) 2021

Poetry “Gurudhaany - goanna part 1”
(Rabbit Journal)

Poetry “BUSY GOANNA - part 2”
(VoiceWorks)

Reflective Essay “Meet Elijah”
(Archer Magazine);

Poetry Reading “Blak Work” for Alison Whittaker’s
(Wheelers Centre)

Performed Poetry with DRMNGNW
(various locations)

Creative Editor of “Under Bunjil”
(University of Melbourne)

Interview of Alison Whittaker
(Rabbit Journal)

Poetry reading with Sister Zai
(Emerging Writers Festival)

Various Poetry Published
(Rabbit Journal)

Poetry Reading and Publication
(Rabbit Journal, Edition 21)

2026

2025

2025

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2024

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2023

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2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2021

2020

2018

2018

2018

2018

2018

2017 - 2021

2016

Media & Links

Drag & Performance
MoCo (Motherless Collective)
moco.au

Summer Break:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/nitv-radio/en/podcast-episode/celebrate-summer-break-a-collection-deadly-drag-per formers/xsmp6snmv

https://nit.com.au/26-01-2026/22253/midsumma-festival-returns-with-a-spotlight-on-first-nations-led-events

Three Blak Ravers:
https://yirramboi.com.au/news/interview-the-motherless-collective

https://www.3cr.org.au/inyaface/episode/caleb-thaiday-elijah-money-three-blak-ravers-motherless-collective-yirramboi https://www.artshouse.com.au/announcing-arts-house-developments-2024-2025/

https://nit.com.au/12-03-2025/16769/reclaiming-centre-stage-with-first-nations-story-telling-at-yirramboi-2025 https://yirramboi.com.au/program/three-blak-ravers

Visual Arts:
https://www.darebinarts.com.au/past-programs/n-scribe-2020/

https://www.facebook.com/events/374137066811602/

https://www.facebook.com/counihangalleryinbrunswick/posts/1670495263135582

https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/writer/elijah-money/?festival=2021

https://www.sawtoothari.com/elijah-money-writing

https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/layers-of-blak/

https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/a-rainbow-of-tomorrows/

https://www.sawtoothari.com/elijah-money-writing

https://www.sawtoothari.com/queer-takeover

Placid in Play:
https://incineratorgallery.com.au/exhibition/placid-in-play/

https://blindside.org.au/program/placid-in-play

Blak Design:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/polly-borland-janet-sobel/14069350

Rainbow of Tomorrows (Fringe Award)
https://mailchi.mp/melbournefringe.com.au/2022festivalopening-388933?e=57c28f032e

Sight for Sore Eyes:
https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2020/1/23/a-sight-for-sore-eyes

Writing:

https://archermagazine.com.au/2020/06/gender-performance-and-drag/

https://freeassociation.com.au/?texts=gurudhaany-goanna

https://mpavilion.org/writers-elijah-money/

https://mpavilion.org/qa-with-elijah-money/

https://www.lieujournal.com/elijah-money.php

https://memoreview.net/reviews/dwelling-victorian-issue-at-gertrude-contemporary-by-elijah-money

https://unprojects.org.au/article/movement-of-unrest/

https://westspace.org.au/offsite/work/let-s-go-home-together

http://cordite.org.au/author/elijahmoney/

Interviews & other Media:

https://joy.org.au/joybreakfast/2024/08/13/elijah-money-interview/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRvnJY76yg

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