Jeff McCann is a Sydney/Gadigal based creative who works in both the visual and performing arts. His practise is a sustainability-focused approach that includes using second hand materials, repurposing old collateral from previous projects to make new work and/or considering the afterlife of the work he makes. He was inspired by childhood creativity and nostalgia, world building, games and the natural environment. Jeff specialises in community engagement projects, public art, workshops and education, collaborations, illustration, props and fashion. His artistic practice strives to create inclusive works that encourage audience involvement and fun. www.jeffmccann.com.au/fashion

Nabilah Nordin has been invited as the first Australian artist to feature in ‘NEW POSITIONS’, a platform which provides young artists the opportunity to present bold and ambitious new work as part of the curated section of Art Cologne, the longest-running art fair in the world. Selected by an international jury 'NEW POSITIONS' has premiered some of the most prominent contemporary artists working today.
 For 'NEW POSITIONS', Nordin combines new bronze and mixed media sculptures in concert with idiosyncratic display devices, creating a sprawling tableaux of irreverent sensibility, colour and form. www.nabilahnordin.com

Betsy Baker, Stephen Burstow and Michele French have each played with the idea of the self portrait using the ‘windowness’ of the street windows as the means. You can look through a window, see yourself reflected and in turn reflect on what it means to live there now … or then …140 years ago. Alternatively, you can imagine how we become part of a place while living in a space and how that shapes your looking out into the world. Then again, you can look out a window into that world with great frustration. Helen Wyatt, Baker Tanner Micro Gallery.

In Converge futurist Dr Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology and science are providing answers to many challenges facing the world today - food shortages, war and conflict, the decline in local manufacturing, health and ageing, and global warming - and asks why we are not embracing these technologies more widely. The answer is often, 'Because we don't know about them! Dr Catherine opens our eyes to the amazing, wide world of technological advancements and explores the role we all have in learning more, owning the conversations, and determining what we want technology to be. www.drcatherineball.com

Art in Site is a London-based studio of artists, designers, and strategists. Their mission is to create healthy environments – places to heal, learn, explore, thrive, and connect – through integrated art & interior design. They believe that creativity has so much to bring beyond beautification. In Hospital Emergency department interiors, they are helping reduce violence and aggression and raising trust in doctors. Their mental health artwork is inspiring hope, and restoring community touchpoints- especially in children’s environments. Working predominately in healthcare spaces for the last 15 years, they are expanding their horizons into education and civic spaces. www.artinsite.co.uk

Leading artists have donated works for an auction to highlight the need to treat refugees and asylum seekers with dignity. Funds raised will be shared between the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project), and Refugee Action Collective Victoria. Artists include: Sculptor Deborah Halpern OAM, Artist and filmmaker Angus McDonald, Archibald finalist and director of the award-winning film, Manus, Iranian documentary photographer Hoda Afshar, and Mallacoota based Rachel Mounsey, photographer and photojournalist. The ‘in person’ auction is on Saturday 12th November 2pm, at the Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne. Online bids at https://artmeetsactivism.com/