The Unconformity team is made up of creative professionals from Lutruwita/Tasmania who work together to produce the biennial festival and annual cultural program.
The core team collaborates with artists, community members and organisations on the West Coast of Lutruwita/Tasmania to create and develop cultural activities for the region. Each festival year, the organisation recruits additional staff, contractors and volunteers to help deliver The Unconformity festival.
Core team
Louisa Gordon – Chief Executive Officer
Louisa comes from an exceptional and sustained career in arts management both locally and nationally. She has enhanced the cultural landscape in Lutruwita/Tasmania through her most recent role as Executive Producer of Mona Foma and Music at Mona, and previously as Director of Programming and Production at Ten Days on the Island, Executive Producer of Taste of Tasmania, and in advisory roles in events, grants, and community engagement at the City of Hobart.
An arts manager for over 25 years, Louisa started her career engaging in the performing arts in Nipaluna/Hobart before graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 1992. She worked for over ten years as a stage, production, technical, and tour manager both nationally and overseas. Following further study in Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), she took on leadership roles at various arts organisations including the roles of General and Program Manager at Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) and Program Manager at Flying Arts in Brisbane. Louisa was also a Senior Producer at the Queensland Music Festival (QMF), Business Manager at The Australian Voices, and then established the first logistics department at Brisbane Festival.
She returned to Lutruwita/Tasmania in 2014 to take up the role at Ten Days on the Island. Previously the Chair of Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE), Louisa has sat on various advisory committees and panels including Tasmania Performs and the Regional Arts Australia Fund.
Loren Kronemyer – Artistic Director
Loren Kronemyer is an artist living and working in regional Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her works span interactive and live performance, experimental media art, curatorial work, and large-scale world-building projects aimed at exploring ecological futures and survival skills.
She works solo, and in collaboration as Pony Express. Her approach of deep and immersive research has led her to foster collaborations with a number of experimental societies, labs, and specialists. These include Australia's last broom factory, from whom she learned to make millet brooms for the project Millennial Reaper; and the World Archery federation, from whom she earned a coaching qualification for her project After Erika Eiffel, and the scientists at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, with whom she developed her show Receiver. Her work has played a role in brokering diplomacy around ecological issues, via projects like Epoch Wars by Pony Express, and The Forest Congress by the Museum of Old and New Art.
She received the first Masters of Biological Arts Degree from SymbioticA Lab at the University of Western Australia, and has a PhD from the University of Tasmania.
Loren has worked as curator on projects including Faux Mo at MONA FOMA Festival, Forest Congress at Mona, and as the Director of Art Farm Birchs Bay.
Jacqueline Dortmans – Executive Producer
Jacqueline is a passionate arts leader and public administration professional with experience spanning two decades across major events, cultural organisations and creative projects.
Most recently, she has led community, government and industry engagement in senior and advisory roles with Ten Days on the Island, Dark Mofo, MONA and the Tasmanian Government. As creative lead, she delivered Jewelled Nights for the Unconformity’s 2025 festival program, a project marking the centenary of the celebrated Tasmanian silent film and the legacy of author Marie Bjelke Petersen.
Across a varied career, Jacqueline has been a musician and performer, toured internationally, presented for community radio, and curated a Tasmanian forestry conference. Her strengths lie in building strong relationships, navigating complex arts and political landscapes, and advocating for local artists and regional representation. She has a keen interest in Tasmanian history, evidence-based approaches to policy and decision-making, and she continues to champion accessibility in the arts.
Jessica Robinson – Marketing and Partnerships Manager
Jess is a marketing and communications professional who combines experience in the arts and tourism sectors to deliver place-based outcomes for the West Coast region. She leads audience- and artist-focused marketing, research and insights, documentation and content creation, fundraising, and partnerships for The Unconformity.
Her role brings together strategy and storytelling to grow the festival’s reach and impact, grounded in values of place, collaboration, and connection. Jess has worked in both agency and in-house communications roles across a range of organisations and festivals, including Junction Arts Festival, Party in the Paddock, The Basin Concert, and Party in the Apocalypse.
Frankie Munro – Program Coordinator
Frankie moved to Queenstown in December 2024, having fallen in love with the West Coast during a visit the previous Easter. Before moving, he completed an internship with Kickstart Arts in nipaluna/Hobart. There, he was able to demonstrate his technical skills while gaining valuable insights into the field, and developed a newfound appreciation for the work that takes place behind the scenes of arts organisations.
As a photographer, Frankie enjoys telling stories through his work and finds inspiration through exploring landscapes and archival material. Having developed a passion for analogue technologies, his own practice has begun to take a more experimental approach.
As he prepares to complete the final stages of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania this year, he is excited to begin his career in the arts with The Unconformity from his new home in Queenstown.
Sky Maynard – Assistant Producer
Sky Maynard is a proud Trawoolaway Palawa woman, born and raised in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Sky comes from a long line of storytellers with deep roots to her community and culture.
She is an emerging producer and designer whose passion for performance and creative design has led her to work across theatre, film, and television. She has gained recent industry experience through attachments on Stuff the British Stole (ABC), Moonbird (SBS), The Survivors (Netflix), and Charcoal (Performing Lines). She is also a participant in Ilbijerri Theatre Company's BlackStage program.
Sky is currently developing her producing skills through the WaPa Muylatina Paya program — a place-based mentoring initiative supporting the next generation of First Nations artists and arts workers in Tasmania. Her placement with The Unconformity is proudly supported by Walantanalinany Palingina and Performing Lines TAS.
