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. Louisa is currently the Chair of Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE) and has sat on other 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.
Maddie Korn – Executive Producer
Maddie is passionate about creating thought-provoking, accessible and inclusive arts experiences. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, she began her career as a stage manager, and has since worked across programming, production, logistics and audience services for festivals and arts organisations nationwide, including Perth Festival, Dark Mofo, Ten Days on the Island, Melbourne Writers Festival and Opera Australia.
Never one to shy away from a challenge, some of her greatest hits include putting full-scale operas on Sydney Harbour and Coolangatta Beach, ensuring many hundreds of local and international artists arrived right on time to perform to Tasmanians in the depths of winter, and helping to bring together 140,000 AC/DC fans on a 14km stretch of highway on a raucous Perth afternoon.
Jessica Robinson – Marketing and Partnerships Manager
Jess is a marketing and media professional with a strong foundation in the arts and tourism sectors. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Business from the University of Tasmania, she worked as Marketing Advisor at S. Group, where she developed and implemented marketing strategies for a diverse range of clients.
Jess has also held the role of Marketing and Partnerships Manager at Junction Arts Festival and has contributed to the delivery of numerous events with Vibestown Productions, including Party in the Paddock, The Basin Concert, and Party in the Apocalypse.
Helena Demczuk – Community Engagement Coordinator
Helena has been living in Queenstown for almost two decades after completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in 2005. She and her partner, Raymond Arnold, initially established an Artist Run Initiative called Landscape Art Research Queenstown (LARQ) in an old school. In a decade of operation, LARQ held over fifty exhibitions, hosted residencies and facilitated many workshops. Throughout this time, Helena also worked as Operations Manager at the Queenstown Library and Community Services Hub.
She was a member of the community development organisation Project Queenstown and was a Board member of Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival before taking on the role of Community Engagement Coordinator in 2019. Helena is an accomplished visual artist and has shown numerous solo and group exhibitions with Watershed, a 2022 project shown at Bett Gallery in Nipaluna/Hobart, being a stand-out. She is also the founder, secretary and treasurer of PressWEST, a studio-based program of workshops, exhibitions and print facility development in Queenstown.
Kate Harrison – Finance Officer
Kate is an experienced arts and operations manager with an active interest in Literature and a passion for promoting the benefits of reading and literacy. She is the former General Manager of The Unconformity, a role she held from August 2020 – August 2024, and is now working for the organisation as a part-time Finance Officer while freelancing. She is also the former General Manager of Island magazine, Marketing Manager of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival, and has worked in finance, marketing, consulting and managerial roles with other organisations such as Detached Cultural Institution, Forty South Publishing, Neon Jungle, Roar Film, Tasmanian Writers Centre, Australian Business Development Centre, Place Brand Agency, Biteable, The Stella Prize, Sharkra Medi Spa, Strahan Primary School, and more. She was the inaugural representative for Literature on the Tasmanian Ministerial Arts and Cultural Advisory Council (2019–22) and runs Read Tasmania and No Lights No Lycra Hobart.
Delia Bartle – Assistant Producer
Delia is a multi-disciplinary creative based in Nipaluna/Hobart, currently working as an Assistant Producer with The Unconformity and Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Her involvement in the arts industry spans roles including Front of House Coordinator (Mona), Digital Producer (ABC Classic), and keyboardist and programmer for musical theatre productions. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature) from UTAS, and in 2023 she was a participant in the Fresh Ink National Mentoring Program, co-hosted by ATYP and Archipelago Productions. She has written for a range of publications, including Limelight Magazine, ABC, and RealTime Arts.